Saturday, August 12, 2006

Dailey Bros. Circus 1947-48 #1


I borrowed these Dailey Show pictures from Bill Strong.
These are train porters posing in front of the pie car. At left is pie car manager Red Rumble whom I remember well from the Kelly-Miller Show in the early 1950's where he served in that same capaciy.
Barbara said that her oldest sister Lottie, not a shrinking violet, once got into a beef with Red and he tossed her out of this establishment. After order had been restored, Red was returning behind the counter when a mop came flying thru one of those windows above and smacked him in the head. Everyone had to laugh including Red.

Posted by Buckles at 8/12/2006 06:40:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Corky Plunkett told me Ben Davenport's philosophy was that no workingman was happy unless he was broke. So when they got paid, they were steered into the games in the Dailey pie car, lost their wages back to the show, and were happy all week long. If they didn't play the slots or the crap games, someone knocked them in the head, took their money, and made sure they were happy. This has to be true, coming from Corky.

Did any of you see the 8 x 10 of Ben Davenport on the back of his private car at the Hertzberg Collection...labeled as John Ringling North? And the local yokels in San Antonio wouldn't change the label--no matter who correctly identified Davenport...

12 August, 2006 18:42
Anonymous said...

Never a dull moment in the back yard of a circus. But the show still went on for the good of all. Flying acts seemed to me to have the most dust ups. always among family members. I remember one flying act on RBBB that was canceled because of a broken arm. Is that why the program reads acts may change?

13 August, 2006 09:04

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