Monday, November 16, 2009

Clyde Beatty Circus 1949 #13

This was the complete herd in 1949 but I don't know in which order.
"Mary", "Sidney","Anna May", "Babe", "Marion", "Hattie", "Cora" and "Inez".
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 11/16/2009 06:28:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Although I wouldn't lump Clyde Beatty into the "high grass" category, it's plenty obvious in these photos that the towners and elephants were going to be the ones leveling this lot. Which got me to wondering, when and how did the "high grass show" term originate?
Lane Talburt

16 November, 2009 10:26
Buckles said...

As lots go, this one looks pretty good, plenty of room.
I remember my dad saying that with Kelly-Miller you might have a tree stump or even a tomb stone in the ring.
I remember a row of parking meters on the front track on Sid Kellner's show.

16 November, 2009 10:36
Ole Whitey said...

Art Doc Miller (not to be confused with Art Miller) once wrote a piece in BW about a small show setting up the big top over an outhouse.

16 November, 2009 12:04
Ralph said...

I think I heard that on a low grass show the contract calls for the lot to be mowed before the shows arrival.
LOL

16 November, 2009 22:19
Roger Smith said...

The version making sense to me was, tall-grass dates are in small-town America, where lots may or may not be cut down for the show. Short-, or low-grass towns are big cities where the populace routinely mows and edges their yards. I was visiting on a show when styles of cat acts came up, and one fella allowed you might get away with some Clyde Beatty in tall-grass towns--maybe, but in short-grass towns--not these days. Reasonable point.

As for grass... In his handwritten letter to me of May 6,1964, from Fredrick, Maryland, Mr. Beatty was detailing many of my upcoming duties around his act, and advised, "First thing in the morning, you'll see that the ground and space where the arena will be located is completely level, with no holes, and if grass is too high, then it must be mowed." And with lingering amusement, I remember relating here long ago that if we needed a lawnmower, a mere whisper to the "Tall Boy", Buck Nolan, promised a new one atop 78 Wagon that night.

17 November, 2009 19:49
Anonymous said...

Now, Roger,
You're telling out of school stories about Buck. But, you are right, if you needed something, just mention it to Buck and sometimes it would magically appear.
What a great guy he was.
Ran into him for the last time on C&B in Hudson, WI, about a year before he went to the Big Lot and he kept me in stiches about some of the things that he had pulled over the years.
Bob Kitto

18 November, 2009 18:22

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