Thursday, March 21, 2019

THE MONEY #3


11 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Gold Medal Whirlwind

(spinning candy)

Chic Silber said...


Plastic liner is a cheat

Charles Hanson said...

Except when you are outdoors on a windy day (lol). Then it's a God Send.....

Charles Hanson said...

Great Floss Shot.....Thanks for posting...

Charles Hanson said...

You can almost smell the cotton candy/the money smell.......

Chic Silber said...


All the fragrances wafting

from grease & grab joints

certainly get their attention

but nothing brings them in

like the popping of Flavacol

flavored corn (my favorite)

They are all money smells

(some call this money soft)

Chic Silber said...


How's that new pan working out

Charles Hanson said...

She is no longer a Virgin Pan....Well seasoned trouper by now. She is being used in a stick floss joint.....Very happy with her....

Chic Silber said...


Isn't spinning much easier

with a paper cone Charles

I've never tried a stick

Charles Hanson said...

I was taught using a paper cone.....in later years I tried the stick. Did not care for it and went back to the paper cones. Having said that, I have used a wooden spoon which works out very well.

Roger Smith said...

When I first met Gee Gee and Billy Powell, in 1965, along with her fabled Alaskans act, Howard Suesz also gave them the floss joint. Gee Gee told me a cone cost her 2-cents to make, and at a quarter a cone, the profit was strong--50++ years ago. Then we saw RBB's going for what--$15??

I think it was in Elvis's film, ROUSTABOUT, where the ingenue told him she turned the fan on frying onions to blow the smells down the midway to make the marks hungry. It sure worked on this mark--I could live on midway hot dogs.

Some readers might remember Red Gates, who departed his post as Clyde Beatty's Gun Boy to make his fortune in concessions. Slick Valentine told me he lost count of the land, buildings, and businesses Red accumulated, all from sno, floss, and rubber. I had one fling with concessions, as an agent for Doc Barbre, when I was very down and out. Doc put me on, and at the end of 4 months I had gotten well.