Monday, August 11, 2008

Candyland 1953 (From Dominic Yodice)


Candyland 1953, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Hello Buckles,
Here's another group of Miles White designed Ringling floats. They are from the 1953 "Candyland" spec.
"Hamburger Mary" (Anne Mace) is on the Unicorn payoff float. I guess she wasn't hungry that day.
Dom

Posted by Buckles at 8/11/2008 06:16:00 AM

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I took 200 ft. of 8-mm color movie film of the Sarasota WQ in March 1955. A number of these 1953 spec floats were lined up in the grass along the northern side of that main paved road that ran from the front entrance east toward the pastures that formed the eastern side of the quarters.

Without re-looking at my film (my projector no longer works) I recall specifically that the red school house was one of them. They looked in pretty good shape after 2years but were seemingly abandoned. I think the wheeled undercarriages had been removed, likely for use on subsequent spec floats.

11 August, 2008 10:32
Anonymous said...

Thanks, Dom for putting these on the blog.

11 August, 2008 10:50

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