Buckles Blog: Flying Alexanders

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Flying Alexanders, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Chic Silber said...: Bobby and Dorothy Yerkes and

Rose and Fay Alexander; 19 June, 2010 22:47
Roger Smith said...: A great act, very much in their prime.

I am uncertain of the year for this shot, but the band-aid on Fay's shoulder may indicate 1957. I visited that year, when the show was headed into Mexico, and everyone was required to get a seriously problematical vaccination. The reaction created an angry area the size of a quarter, the center of which rose 3/8" to 1/2", and had to be protected with a plastic cover that had a balloon section allowing for what resembled a boil. Albert White was especially distressed by his ordeal, saying over and over, "Thish ish jush awful. The poor thing is jush awful."; 20 June, 2010 22:18

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