Buckles Blog: RBBB Winter Qtrs. #20 (From Eric Beheim) Part 3

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Chic Silber said...: Brooks had primarily been the

leading uniform company in the US

I was told that it started with

show costumes for RBBB and became

the most respected theatrical

costumer for Broadway for years

It bought Van Horn the Philly

costume company and became Brooks

Van Horn long before the Eaves

Costume Company took it over to

become Eaves-Brooks then years

later the Dodgers (still a major

Broadway producing & management

company) bought the whole shebang

and renamed it Dodger Costumes

for the few years before it all

went down the old sinkhole

All that heritage is gone; 08 December, 2009 09:42
Anonymous said...: Imagine any traveling circus going out today and selling local ad space as has been seen in the Sarasota booklets. It's testimony to community involvement and the importance of the circus payroll, purchasing power and employee residency and constituency. It's unlikely that any show or quarters ever achieved the profile and brand of RBBB in Sarasota.

If you want to read another chapter about great and mutually beneficial circus-community relations, check out the coverage of Charles Sparks and Macon, Georgia in Greg Renoff's interesting book, "The Big Tent, The Traveling Circus in Georgia 1820-1930." It's worth buying and reading.; 08 December, 2009 09:53

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