These pages are from a program book sold on th Royal American girl show in 1955. I ran across it in an old box of stuff. At the time the show was a mammoth railroad carnival rivaling Ringling in size.
Smart-assed kid that I was (now smart-assed senior citizen), I recognized Carl Sedlmayr Sr. on the lot one day at the Mississippi State Fair in Jackson. I was about 14 I guess. I spoke to him and he could not have been more kind, walking me around and pointing out various midway attractions. Even wrote a note that I was to "admitted with courtesy to any attraction" on the back of his business card.
For several state fairs after, I'd drop by the office wagon to see Mr. Sedlmayr for my "personal tour."
Once I asked him if he'd ever considered entering the circus business. "No," he replied. "The circus just has one box office. I have about 75."
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I wasw at a party in Tampa hosted by Eddie Zachinni and his sister Egli and her husband Carl Sedymair Jr. were there. In jackpotting with him he advised me he had been on a circus. I was quite surprised and he remarked that his father had the side show on the Gentry-Patterson Circus. How about that.
Carl J., Sr. ran the 10 in 1 on Coop & Lent in the 1910s. That showed him the profitable side of the biz.
Old-timers (don't you look at me) will recall that Ralph Edwards featured Mr. Sedlmayer as an honoree on TV's THIS IS YOUR LIFE, on March 9, 1955.
Older-timers remember Mabel Stark being so honored when the show was still on radio, April 26, 1950. Parley Baer, a co-founder with Edwards for Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters, arranged that one.
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