Sunday, September 19, 2010

Elephant Poster #1 (From Jim Cole)


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Buckles,

These posters from the Tibbal's poster collection, at the Ringling Circus Museum, Sarasota, FL.

.....sorry, no scantily clad showgirls this time.

Jimmy Cole

Posted by Buckles at 9/19/2010 05:58:00 AM

9 comments:

Jimmy Cole said...

As I understand it, Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey only did a street parade for their first year as a combined circus. That would have been the 1919 season?

19 September, 2010 07:12
Dick Flint said...

1919 was the first year of the combination but the parade of the combined ran for two years. This poster is interesting because it was printed as a B&B poster but "Ringling Bros. and" is a separate sheet that was added at the top, hence the slightly odd size.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

19 September, 2010 17:41
Ole Whitey said...

Francis Kitzman was on the Ringling advance before the combine and then on the RBBB advance for several years. He said in the East they would ask if they could put posters up for Barnum and Bailey and in the west they said Ringling Bros.

Along this same line, many years later we had a guy on Famous Cole who, when talking to a Black barn owner, would always ask if he could post some bills for the Robinson show. He was never called down on this pitch.

19 September, 2010 23:53
Anonymous said...

RBBB actually staged a couple street parades after 1920, for milk funds and the sale of WWII war bonds [using parade wagons], and Labor Day events [Merle Evans band on a baggage wagon roof] but the daily scheduled events stopped in 1920. Also, don't forget the several parades staged under the Feld ownership.

20 September, 2010 07:40
Anonymous said...

To add to anonymous comment,
particularly the March 1993 parade celebrating 200 years of Circus in America. The parade route went up the West side of Manhattan, around Columbus Circle, through Central Park to the Museum Of Natural History where Gunther, Mark and staff had the herd do a longmount along the south side of the Museum. Many costumed performers were in the Parade, most riding in horsedrawn coaches and historic wagons sent from CWM in Baraboo.
Among those in the Parade were Lee and Judy Stevens, Sigrid and Tina Gebel, Eric Michael Gillette and a number of clowns. I believe it was clown Dave Didera (sp?)that walked the entire Parade on long stilts.

Once the Parade was over many people in attendance went inside the Museum to hear Kenneth Feld, ringmaster of ceremonies Dave Kiser and others speak in front of Jumbo's skeleton which was put on display for the occasion. Some of the clowns entertaining the kids included "Cowboy" Mike Keever, Gina Allison and Adam Auslander. As I recall the whole event was well-covered by the press. A great day for the Circus!

Paul Gutheil

20 September, 2010 11:28
Dick Flint said...

To anonymous: True, but Jimmy's initial question spoke in terms of a "street parade for their first year as a combined circus" so I didn't consider the special benefit, etc., parades as worth noting. I remember such a parade in Washington, D.C., 8 or so years ago as well.
To Dave Price: When I worked in the Baraboo library, when non-fans came in with a question, invariably those from the east spoke of B&B, those from the midwest, Ringling.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

20 September, 2010 17:04
Buckles said...

When I lived in Hugo we called it "Ranglin' Brothers".

20 September, 2010 17:11
Chic Silber said...

Sounds like the folks from Hugo

have a dialect all their own

20 September, 2010 18:11
Ole Whitey said...

Dick: Even after all those years- fascinating

21 September, 2010 22:56

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