Thursday, February 10, 2011

From Chris Berry

I somehow managed to delete the text that Mr. Berry had included with this picture so I'll let you figure it out for yourselves until we receive further comment.
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Posted by Buckles at 2/10/2011 07:04:00 AM

19 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a Pan Am DC-4.

10 February, 2011 08:29
Chic Silber said...

Could this be RB in South America

10 February, 2011 09:45
Chic Silber said...

I believe that's a good ol DC-6

Flew a bunch of noisy miles in

those reliable warhorses

10 February, 2011 09:59
Anonymous said...

DC-6 (aka C-118) had square windows.
Very reliable indeed.

Bob Swaney

10 February, 2011 11:08
Ole Whitey said...

The first time I was on a plane in 1947 it was a DC3, which was the same as one model of the C47.

Two engines. On one side of the aisle there was just one seat, two on the other.

In those days you were not very high and could see the landscape below you very well.

Many years later someone opened a "WW II Theme" restaurant near here. It looked from the outside like a bombed-out French chateau and in the yard was an old C47.

Just one of the many things that has reminded me of my long-gone youth.

10 February, 2011 11:32
Dick Flint said...

Since jets were in use by the time Ringling went to South America, this would be Ringling going to Havana for their annual gig there. Probably 1950s but could be late 1940s. And a giveaway, the plane is a Cuban airliner! However, your blog no longer seems to allow us to greatly enlarge the image to identify people in this photo. That's not you computer's fault but apparently you are no longer using Flickr??
Dick Flint
Baltimore

10 February, 2011 11:49
Buckles said...

Dick, the pictures enlarge nicely on this end.
I will consult my technician over this matter.

10 February, 2011 11:55
Chris Berry said...

This picture is labeled "RINGLING BROS AND BARNUM AND BAILEY - HAVANA 1951". I'm not sure if it is the end of the 1950-51 tour - or the beginning of the 1951-52 engagement. I thought that your sharp-eyed viewers might be able to identify a few of those on the Havana tarmac. I seen Merle Evans with a fedora sitting on the back of his head a couple of rows from the wing. Is that Michael Burke near the door on the stairs? Any others?

10 February, 2011 12:04
Buckles said...

I see Schwartzie!

10 February, 2011 12:55
Anonymous said...

HOW'D THEY GET THE ELEPHANTS ON BOARD THROUGH THAT LITTLE DOOR???
:-)
CINDY POTTER

10 February, 2011 13:05
Casey said...

I was able to enlarge it ok. I think that is a young Jimmy Armstrong next to the lady in the center in the white dress.

10 February, 2011 16:26
Anonymous said...

I don't recognize the lady on the left but the gentleman on her left looks like Alvin Schwartz. On his left is Prince Paul Albert. The lady in the center in the white dress looks like Jeanne Sleeter and to her left is Jimmy Armstrong and then Frankie Saluto.
Chris...Michael Burke didn't come on the show until 1955
Cindy..they probably used the inflatable elephants same as two years ago...LOL
Dom

10 February, 2011 17:22
JACKIE LECLAIRE said...

EVERYONE ON THE PLANE IS NOT IN THE PHOTGRAPH AS I DO NOT SEE A LOT OF THE PERFROMERS. I COULD NOT FIND MYSELF EITHER. RINGLING WENT 49 TO 50 OVER THE CHRISTMAS SEASON THEN AGAIN 50 TO 51 THE NEXT YEAR. I DO NOT THINK THEY WENT AGAIN, BUT I AM NOT AN HISTORIAN. I WENT BOTH YEARS. I RECOGNIZE MERLE EVANS, PAUL JUNG, ALVING SCHWARTZ, JEANNIE SLEETER, PRINCE PAUL, JIMMY ARMSTRONG, FRANKIE SALUTO, EMMETT KELLY, LOU JACOBS AND MYRON ORTON. WHERE THE HELL I WAS I DO NOT REMEMBER, BUT I DO NOT SEE MANY PERFORMERS LIKE UNUS, THE CHALUDIES, ETC. WHAT A WONDERFUL TIME WE HAD AND WE WERE ALL TREATED BY THE CUBAN PEOPLE LIKE GREAT STARS. JACKIE LECLAIRE

10 February, 2011 17:48
Anonymous said...

Dom-
I figured it was some sort of circus magic!!
:-)
Cindy

11 February, 2011 13:20
Anonymous said...

Cindy, if you enlarge the picture the door is much bigger

11 February, 2011 19:26
Anonymous said...

Looks like Frank McKloski at the borrom of the steps.

12 February, 2011 08:48
Chic Silber said...

I think you are correct but it's

McClosky (his stage name)

The family name is hard to spell

Something like Michelshewski but

pronounced Mikelshevski

12 February, 2011 10:03
Ole Whitey said...

Michelshewski?

All these years I thought McClosky and Kernan (Forbes) were both Irish.

Dave Mullaney had a great story of Kernan saying to him the first time they met, "What part of Boston are you from?" and supposedly Dave said, "Quincy- I'm Shanty Irish the same as yourself."

12 February, 2011 19:37
Chic Silber said...

Bobby Snowden has some hilarious

stories about Frank & Walter even

if they are slightly embroidered

12 February, 2011 21:58

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