Sunday, June 14, 2009

RBBB 1961 Program #1


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"Me and Punch Jacobs drove our wives down to Dallas from Hugo to see the Ringling Show this year and we enjoyed it thoroughly.
The highlight of the visit came when all of us got bombed in the pie car afterward (they sold drinks right over the counter) to an extent that Eddie Ward and Jimmy Ringling had to help us off the train when it started to move.
While waving farewell it suddenly occurred that Barbara was still aboard.
While Punch was asking a railroad guy where the first stop was, the last of the train passed to reveal my wife standing on the other side of the tracks blissfully waving bye-bye. She had somehow managed to step down from the wrong side of the vestibule.

"History claims that this was during the show's low point but a quick count of the performers and quality of same might prove otherwise"
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 6/14/2009 06:41:00 AM

3 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

Count Nicholas once gave me a free beer in that pie car at about this time. He said he was running it for Lawson which probably means Artie, who never turned down a sure thing, got first count.

14 June, 2009 10:48
Chic Silber said...

By the early 60s the train had

only 17 cars Charlie Smith once

told me and by 81 both trains

were up to 44 cars each

I heard recently that they

were both at about 60 cars

So maybe the "Low Point"

only pertained to the train

14 June, 2009 15:44
Frank Ferrante said...

The PETA people would have a field day with this cover today. ~frank (Not just the ankle bracelet, but enforcing child labor laws, too!)

15 June, 2009 00:28

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