Wednesday, July 15, 2009

King Bros. Parade 1954 #1 (From Jim Cole)


June 28, 1954 King Bros. #7, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Final set of the John Cutler photos.

Posted by Buckles at 7/15/2009 06:08:00 AM

12 comments:

24-HOUR-MAN said...

When I was in High School, & for a while afterward I had a part time job as a "soda jerk", in Wren's Dept. Store Cafeteria, in Springfield, Ohio. One day I was out during lunch hour & saw the King Show parade, my lunch hour wound 3 hours long, & my boss threatened to chain me to the soda fountain when there was a circus in town'
By the way, if any of you "old timers",. long for an old fashioned "Ice Cream Soda", made with ice cream, flavoring, & seltzer water, Ruby Tuesdays has them.

15 July, 2009 08:58
Ole Whitey said...

Yes, Bill, but nobody makes Phosphates any more. They were seltzer and flavoring (I liked vanilla) and Phosphoric Acid (just a tetch) and have apparently disappeared from the American Scene.

By the way I hope the girl in this picture was saluting the American Flag and not just shielding her eyes from the sun. When we were kids we always showed the Flag respect. When it was shown in a movie, everyone applauded- how many of you remember that?

15 July, 2009 12:45
Frank Ferrante said...

Bill - I think the year was '67 or '68, it was the first year the Feld's brought RBBB to The Fabulous Forum in Inglewood, CA. I was riding my bike to summer school, through the old train yards in downtown Los Angeles when I came across Max Schaffer. I asked him how I could get a job with the show and he told me to go out to the Forum and he would put me to work in concessions. I forgot all about summer school, road the 35 miles out there, and started as a candy butcher in the seats that night. ~frank
(Didn't get through until almost midnight and had to call my Dad to pick me up. He was more than a little ticked, but let me do it for the summer because it was my first job.)

15 July, 2009 14:54
Frank Ferrante said...

I was 13 or 14 and big for my age. (I guess you could say I'm STILL big for my age!) ~frank

15 July, 2009 14:55
Richard Reynolds said...

I saw the King show in Marietta, GA in the spring of ’54. It offered the two worst acts I’ve ever had to sit through - -the riding Conleys and flying Farfans. Both acts looked like they were rehearsing for the first time. I’m not alone in this observation. Maybe both lacked key members but for whatever reason, both were awful.

15 July, 2009 14:56
Jimmy Cole said...

Richard, Are you sure on the correct name of the flying act?

15 July, 2009 15:59
Chic Silber said...

Hey Whitey come on over

I still make the best chocolate

phosphates in the world

Milk Hershey's syrup & seltzer

But I think you're right about

nobody else even knowing them

15 July, 2009 18:07
Anonymous said...

I concur with Richard Reynolds that both the riding act and flying act were well below standard. Especially with the riding act after having had The World Renowned Riding Cristiani Family for so many years on King-Cristiani. One correction - the flying act was The Flying LaForms - not Farfans. Walter Jennier with Buddy the Seal and his wife Ethel working her supberb single trap act as Miss Aerialetta - - more than made up for the other acts mentioned. Wish I could see it all again - Charles Hanson

15 July, 2009 18:22
Anonymous said...

To Jim Cole: Many thanks for sharing these King Bros Circus photos with all of us on Buckles Blog. I lived in Macon, Georgia during the Floyd King/Cristiani years ...... So these photos are especially meaningful to me. Thanks Thanks Thanks Charles Hanson

15 July, 2009 19:24
Richard Reynolds said...

Ahh - -LaForms it was. They were just terrible. Missed catches with the flyer(?) climbing back to try again and failing again.

15 July, 2009 23:43
Unknown said...

Hey Richard, Mitzie LaForm isstill alive and kicking. Bet she kick your butt if she read this

11 October, 2020 16:19
Unknown said...

I'm trying to get info on the La Forms for Suzi La Form all she knew was Mitzi was in the act. We'd appreciate any info or lunks to this. Carol grandayther of Adolph Delbosq

12 November, 2021 07:01

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