Saturday, March 12, 2016

#2 "Major"


Posted by Buckles at 3/12/2016 05:23:00 AM

4 comments:

Hal Guyon said...

So the picture I have should probably be tagged John Robinson instead of Robbins Bros.

12 March, 2016 09:34
Buckles said...

Easier for you to do that, than me type out a new card.

12 March, 2016 11:53
Dick Flint said...

For Hal Guyon: the photo has to have been taken at the Hall farm as the float was never on any Corporation show. Buchanan bought several of the old Barnum & London floats (as well as the Two Hemispheres0 just before RBBB moved out of their Bridgeport winter quarters in 1927. At the start of the Great Depression, he mortaged his show to William P. Hall and so all but one (Santa Claus) of the pony floats he had bought went to Hall's Farm in 1932. Jess Adkins bought them for the Cole show in 1936. So, the only years they could be seen with Major at the Hall Farm would be that 1932-35 time slot.

12 March, 2016 13:54
Hal Guyon said...

Thanks to both Buckles and Dick Flint for the information.

12 March, 2016 20:04

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