I never noticed until I enlarged this parade photo that Col. Cody himself is leading the Wild West contingent. |
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Sells Floto-Buffalo Bill 1914-15 #2
Posted by Buckles at 1/30/2008 06:25:00 AM
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Perhaps the parade was a few hours of peace and quiet away from the fetching Mrs. Cody...a delightful woman with a solid constitution.
We are treading on dangerous ground here. I pointed out to my wife that this is about what we look like today.
Not a good move.
Buckles,
Did you want me to record the Superbowl for you or is Benny going to? I'm afraid that, that not too well thought out comment, has earned you some additional "dance lesson" time. A one, A two, step turn.
Wade Burck
There is a well-known and well-circulated movie of the Buffalo Bill parade taken more than a decade earlier than this photo and Cody shows in it, also, with a huge swarm of kids following along. And to use the term much discussed this past week, a true "superstar" of his era. Though he died 90 years ago, I've shaken the hand of several people who were still proud to recall having done the same with the amazing Col. One fellow said it ranked with shaking Babe Ruth's hand. THAT'S STARDOM!
Dick Flint
Baltimore
My dad saw Buffalo Bill in the Sells-Floto parade in Dallas in 1914. I wondered if his memory might be a bit foggy until the show was written up in Bandwagon and verified that the Colonel did make parade.
By the way the above mentioned dad still talked about seeing Buffalo Bill on his death bed nearly eighty-five years later so it was one of the high points of his life.
I never miss the Super Bowl however I leave the TV on Mute until after the desecration National Anthem.
In fact I leave it on Mute throughout if Brent Mussberger is involved in any.
Cody may well have been the best known American of his day throughout the western world, especially after Barnum died. Imagine any superstar of today being told he or she is going to ride horseback in the daily street parade, perform in two shows, greet visitors and sign autographs and also make nice with the management outfit running the show. On top of that, he was a nice guy and an easy touch for too many people. I'd also bet that no superstar has ever driven a coach with four kings in it, as well as another royal hanger on [a duke or soemthing]. Cody did. He's still an important figure today and will be written about for many more decades.
But to get back on topic for a minute, and in response to Flint: I have worked with two guys who had worked on the Bill show and I knew one old timer who was on the Cole Younger-Frank James outfit.
Of course this was when they were old and I was young.
Buckles: I, understandably, don't imagine you'd put this on the blog,
but I remember years ago on the BAC
at Lincoln Center...we were in your trailer and Barbara came out with some kind of green compound all over her face. I said aomething like, "Wow, this is a photo op!" Barbara looked me right in the eye and said, "NO, IT"S NOT." I don't believe I had my camera out again until we were in the big top. By the way as far as your lovely wife goes, that recent picture of her on the blog clearly shows that she is just as beautiful as ever.
Getting back to Bison Bob...among a number of my Grandmother's favorite recollections were her trips to see the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show and the "Barnum & Bailey Show"
She was born in 1883.
PS I admire a man who likes to live dangerously.
Paul Gutheil
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