Thursday, April 09, 2009

The Vanishing Engagement!

I have been informed that the Coney Island date has mysteriously disappeared from the Gold Unit Tour Page.
Must have gotten Zing Zang Zoomed from the Internet.
Maybe we scooped the Front Office.

Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 4/09/2009 06:53:00 AM

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Am I mistaken, or didn't Cole Bros. play Coney Island last summer?

09 April, 2009 07:55
Anonymous said...

Cole Bros. played Coney for a week during the summer of 2007.

Joe Giordano

09 April, 2009 12:06
Anonymous said...

I read in one of the Trade Journals that the powers that be at Coney Island and the Feld Organization could not come to terms over the percentage on Concessions. Guess time will tell. Markeno

09 April, 2009 13:24
Chic Silber said...

Kindly tell us what trade journal

you read that in & when

Thank you

Chic

09 April, 2009 16:54
Anonymous said...

There are some great pictures of the Cole Bros. Circus on Coney Island at:

http://www.sideshowworld.com/TY-ConeyIsland2007summer.html

:-)

Cindy Potter

09 April, 2009 17:47
Buckles said...

It was on the Ringling Web Site for a while.
If it was made to vanish by Zing Zang Zoom that would be one of the few tricks that actually worked.

The Feld Entertainment Concession Co. is not to be taken lightly. Even if it means resuming the Gold Unit route in Cut and Shoot, Texas.

09 April, 2009 17:47
24-HOUR-MAN said...

Maybe Coney will do as Abe did, & produce their own "Zing Zam Zoooooom", I seem to remember that was also over the concessions.

"OH, THE GREED OF THE ULTRA-RICH, WHEN IS ENOUGH~ENOUGH".

09 April, 2009 18:40
Mike Naughton said...

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03192009/news/regionalnews/ringling_bros__may_pitch_tent_on_coney_i_160359.htm

This NY Post article appeared March 19th and mentions that the negotiations regarding concessions was the deal killer.

I found the Coney Island date on the RBBB web site 2 weeks later. Perhaps the beef was patched.

Within 24 hours of the Coney Island date appearing on the blog the information VANISHED from the Ringling tour page.

All the news that is fit to print AND
all the news that will cause a fit.

I didn't intent to cause a panic; since it was published on the web site I figured it was a done deal.

OK, time to speculate - if it does go through, who's tent will they use?
Bring back the Kaliedoscape tent (a Nock tent I believe from Europe) or what?
Who in the USA would have a tent suitable?

10 April, 2009 00:32
Anonymous said...

There were 2 options for RBBB at Coney Island. One was via a developer, who offered perks, but also wanted a cut of the concession money.
The second was a site with the standard arrangements.
RBBB chose the second.....duh
Story of this was in New York Times last week.

14 April, 2009 10:09

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