Buckles Blog: 1936 RBBB Route Book #2

Thursday, October 21, 2010

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Ole Whitey said...: Red Sonnenberg wrote some of the funniest letters I ever received. He would use the red ribbon to highlight certain words or phrases and he also would throw it into "Cap Lock" for key sentences.

The term "Banner" has several meanings, but I assume here he is referring to advertising banners that your dad put on the elephants. There were of course also bannermen and banner pullers on the advance.

Frank "Front Page" Lee told me his brother Rex died of pneumonia from pulling banners off high buildings in the chill of an early spring.; 21 October, 2010 15:09
Buckles said...: My dad was indeed a bill poster while still in his teens with the Campbell, Bailey & Hutchinson Circus in the early 1920's.; 21 October, 2010 19:45
Ole Whitey said...: I think it was Jimmy Hammiter who told me that the old Campbell, Bailey and Hutchinson (or C B & H) was often called "Cold, Broke and Hungry."; 21 October, 2010 22:00

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