Thursday, January 14, 2010

Side Show Bally! #3

Posted by Buckles at 1/14/2010 05:58:00 AM

6 comments:

Jimmy Cole said...

I see Heidi Herriott on the bally platform. This photo would be from 1982, which was the last year that Beatty-Cole toured with a side show.

14 January, 2010 09:33
Roger Smith said...

The tall guy at left is Walter, also a sword swallower, whom I think set or equalled a record number of swords--was it 13 or so?

14 January, 2010 14:13
Chic Silber said...

The girl with her hand up might

be Margarita (Vasquez) Ayala

Years later she went by the

show name of Marguerite Michelle

14 January, 2010 14:36
Bill Schreiber said...

Now I could be all wet on this,
but the talker with the mike I believe is Jim Windland and the lady with her hand up I believe is Sandi Windland. Sadly both of them have passed away. They sold their winterquarters property in Gibtown where my family and numerous others spent many a winter to the Reithoffer Shows carnival for a carnival winterquarters which is what it currently is.

14 January, 2010 15:58
Anonymous said...

You can pre-order Al Stencell's great new book about sideshows: http://www.amazon.com/Circus-Carnival-Ballyhoo-Sideshow-Jabbers/dp/1550228803/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263592439&sr=1-12

15 January, 2010 16:56
Roger Smith said...

I'm sorry not to have identified Jim and Sandy Windland. In '81, Hoover put 3 tiger cubs in the Side Show at times,to bolster the menagerie, and I'd check them during the day for feeding, water, and bedding. The Windlands were very nice to me, but had running feuds with some of the workingmen, about which I remained a cagehand, and neutral to Side Show affairs. They loved being able to advertise the cubs. I am also sorry to know only now of their passing. We exchanged 2 or 3 Christmas cards before losing touch.

15 January, 2010 23:01

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