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Saturday, May 01, 2010
From Chic Silber
Posted by Buckles at 5/01/2010 05:54:00 AM
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Posted by Buckles at 5/01/2010 05:54:00 AM
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I live in Riverview, but I was not the guilty one.
Do I recall correctly that this
was our "turnaround year"
And wasn't this the last of the
single edition TGSOE
Chic,
Actually this was the first year or two Ringling units. The 1968 (98th Edition) was the last time only one unit was on tour.
Jack
Thanks Jack
Was the 99th The 1st Red and the
100th the 1st Blue (as such)
And I thought I was only losing
most recent memory
Chic,
We used the terms Red and Blue for the first time in 1969.
The Red, starring the newly-imported Gunther, was pretty much a brand-new show. It went on the usual tour.
The Blue, with Charly Baumann, Hugho Schmitt's elephants, Elvin Bale etc. was largely a rehash of the 98th Edition -- production numbers etc. It spent several months that summer at Judge Hofheinz's Astrohall, adjacent to the Astrodome, in Houston.
It also played a number of smaller cities that came to be known as "the rodeo circuit" at the time.
Jack
I visited the show in 1968 in Denver.
Rumors were rampant but plausible.
The one I liked best was that the new show would travel to the west coast and remain there wintering in LA and would then become Ringling Bros.
The other would stay east using the Barnum & Bailey title.
Thanks again Jack
All of those details I do recall
It's the edition numbers that I'd
like you to fill in for me
Sounds like some of the really
silly rumors that have been
"flying" around for several days
pertaining to the CO & UA merger
This morning's announcement has
cleared up many of them but has
spawned a host of new ones
Maybe they should have called
one unit Ring and the other Ling
Didn't Elvin start out on Red
before some exciting developments
helped decide his move to Blue
Some of us at the time quietly
joked about the 2nd GSOE
Chic,
In 1969, both units were the 99th Edition. In 1970, the shows were "The 100th Anniversary Edition" (Blue) and "The 1970 Edition" (Red).
The program book I did in 1969 was a combo, using photos of both shows. There was a middle-of-the-book signature that changed for each shows' Program of Displays.
All the writing in the '69 book (other than Program of Displays) had to be generic so as to fit both shows.
Buckles, I too heard the rumor about one unit to be called "Ringling Bros." and the other "Barnum & Bailey." Not sure the powers that be ever seriously considered it. But, yes, an intriguing idea for sure.
Jack
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