Friday, March 17, 2017

#1 James Bros.

If memory serves correctly, this was a former Mills Bros. top 180' with three 40's.

3 comments:

Roger Smith said...

As Mills closed, I recall this top was still in reasonable shape, and Uncle Sid got a fair buy. My first time out with the Jungleland Fighting Lions, in '67, was to make a three-week West Coast tour with James Bros. I met Barbara and Buckles over there, on another such route, in '69. So we've known each other for half a century, and we could all still do it again. Someone put up the arrows.

Jim Alexander said...

In 1969 James Bros. played the old Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis in the early summer. One of those dates where they sold a lot of tickets but few showed up. Beside the Woodcocks the only acts I remember were Wynn aerial numbers, whatever you can do on an inclined wire.

Roger Smith said...

I had the Jungleland lion act on Uncle Sid's very early dates in '69. I played only Eugene, Oregon, then Salem, Seattle, and Vancouver, BC, after which I made the long home run back to Thousand Oaks. This abbreviated tour for me was from January 1 to the 15th. No Jungleland acts continued with him for the summer that took him to St. Louis. This was rather to our advantage, as our Compound trucks were showing their age by then, and certainly under our management, no improvements were ever to come. We scraped by into that summer and in October, the place closed down.