Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Doc Boyle, Jim Williams and Don......

5 comments:

Jimmy Cole said...

On the right is Circus Fan Don Francis. I couldn't remember his name when I sent this in.

Anonymous said...

Don and Doc helped at Circus World for many, many years. They shared an apartment together about two blocks from CWM. Don helped in the library and Doc did PR with membership and promotion. Both great circus enthusiasts and missed dearly by many of us. What a great pair and what CWM was all about, people with a passion. Ralph from Baraboo

J.C. Hall said...

Don Francis
Had once worked in the office and on the front end of the Cristiani show.
Cutting up jack pots with him while working in Baraboo was quite educational.
"A real nice man".

Dick Flint said...

Looks like the lucky boys to me and I sure remember that the guy in the center could toss the broads!
The two shills worked in the library the summers I was there. Great guys. Don Francis spent most of his life working for the Southern Pacific railroad. Much of the CWM collection of rat bills came from him as well as the earliest known circus poster printed in color, an 1847 Raymond one-sheet.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

J Goodall said...

Don Kidder on the right.