The John Pugh listed above is no relation to today's famed Showman of the same name but rather "Rags" Pugh long time bull hand....... Ayres Davies later owned his own show, The Ayres & Katherine Davies Circus, a very nice man, my father introduced me to him when he visited Kelly-Miller years ago and I remember him saying that he had been in the Marines during WW2 and was stationed at some sort of Transportation Depot and after mentioning to his superiors that rather than load flat cars from the side at a single loading dock, you could do like circuses and by means of cross over plates and runs, load a dozen trains simultaneously. He said he was immediately commissioned a Lieutenant and fought the rest of the war as a Traainmaster......of course I also remember both Davie MacIntosh and Charlie Cuthbert from Kelly-Miller and even before with Wallace Bros. Buckles |
Saturday, November 12, 2011
James M. Cole Program #2
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Ayres Davies and I became very good friends the last eight or ten years of his life. A very fine man.
I might also add, he spent some time with the Kelly-Morris circus, before framing his own show.
I note Maynard Visengard to be Tex Maynard [great drummer and wild west performer] and father of Gaylord Maynard. Gaylord told me about being a young clown-wire walker-concert on Jimmy Cole circus. His mother was Marcie, organist. tanglefoot
Later Oscar Decker would become a great personable new england circus fan. Lou Barton would be either father or Uncle [heorge and Lou Barton cowboys-wild west] of our own Mr. Sensation [Billy Barton] who grew up around Hunt, Jimmy Cole, etc.
Ayres Davies went to Beloit College
and later when he had his own show played the in college field house.
Very nice man.
Bob Kitto
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