Buckles Blog: Beckmann & Gerety Shows #5

Monday, September 07, 2009

Scan12118, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: If you did this open pony ride today, each kid would be strapped on the saddle and every pony would have a person walking by it's side.
It's a wonder that we all survived without gov't rules and the insurance industry looking out for their asses.
Bob Kitto; 07 September, 2009 18:58
Anonymous said...: What is the show in the upper left of the picture? I tried to enlarge it but couldn't make out what it was. There are 2 cages at the front of the platform and it seems to be high enough for a motor dome. Maybe with a riding lion?
Bob Kitto
PS: My dad always said that B&G was one of the greatest carnivals that he ever saw.; 07 September, 2009 19:21
Chic Silber said...: It does appear to be the upper

outside wall of a drome Bob; 07 September, 2009 20:18
Anonymous said...: There is a photo blow up to the left of the cages showing a drome rider on the wall. The word lion also appears in the wording on the high marquee. What a great attraction - the free bally - was a show in itself. Charles Hanson; 07 September, 2009 21:13
Chic Silber said...: Perhaps it was Jewel New's

grandfather; 07 September, 2009 21:52
GaryHill said...: I think Jewell's grandad was a moonshiner!; 09 September, 2009 17:37

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