Friday, May 21, 2010

Hunt Bros. Circus #10


Scan12984, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 5/21/2010 05:38:00 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

I remember sitting in Harry & Charlotte Levines' kitchen visiting but no clue which of the little houses was theirs. She had collected handpainted dishes to hang on the wall. It's funny the memories that stick with you.
cc

21 May, 2010 11:00
Darryl said...

Are any of these buildings still standing

21 May, 2010 12:49
Anonymous said...

I haven't driven by there for 30 years now, but the ring building use to be very obvious from old Route 130. Last time I was there there were still trucks in the field and Marsha wanted to sell me a bunch of date paper in the barn. Have some old slides I need to see if I can dig out!
Carl

21 May, 2010 17:23
J C Hall said...

In 1999 while touring with the Vidbel show, I went by the old show grounds at night. I went back the next day around noon with Bill Phillips to get some photos and they had just bulldozed the last of the ring barn down. Did not get a chance to get any photos.
In short, no, there is not a thing left standing.

21 May, 2010 18:04
Roger Smith said...

JIMMY HALL--We had a very similar experience out here in the Mojave Desert. In late 2003, I drove over to Victorville to check out the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum. Roy, Jr., known as Dusty, had closed it and moved it to Branson. Sitting on a freshly bulldozed lot was a lonely dumptruck. The last vestige of Apple Valley's revered family attraction was the concrete base from which a replica of Trigger once reared in greeting. Along with this sadness, on this past December 12, citing hard economic times and the dwindling numbers of Roy and Dale's aging, lifelong fans, Dusty closed the museum in Branson.

21 May, 2010 23:08
Mike Naughton said...

Count me among the aging fans.
Too bad they didn't run reruns of the tv show on cable, it would have created a new generation of kiddie fans.

Not circus related, but hits the nail on the head regarding generations: I was at the computer store and asked the young computer expert if the line settings for a document (single space, space and a half and double space) were a universal standard, similar to a typewriter.

The young assistant looked puzzled and replied sheepishly, "I don't know, typewriters were before my time."

22 May, 2010 04:34
Anonymous said...

I believe there ia mall now where the Hunt Quarters were.

Roy & Dale, Gene and Hoppy and so may others. As Maurice Chevalier used to sing, "I'm glad I'm not young anymore..."

I pity these kids today, no respectable role models to look up to, little that requires using real imagination (forget the internet). I find it pathetic to watch kids (2,3, or 4 together at times) walking to school (most in this town drive late model cars and suv's, even if they live 3 blocks away.)
talking on cell phones, I assume to other kids.

Lastly, I'm glad that, in my opinion, there is so much crepe (as the Frenh say)on TV; it makes going to a Circus even more enjoyable, if that's possible.

Thank you Showfolks. Please KEEP
THOSE WAGONS ROLLIN'

Paul G.

22 May, 2010 13:17

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