Thursday, February 03, 2011

Unidentified #1


Scan00000010234, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

These are the unidentified pictures I mentioned previously that were in the Frank J. Taylor envelope.

3 comments:

Bob Cline said...

Buckles,
I have the same set of photos. They are indicated as being taken at the Frank Walters farm in Texas. The small cages were old Gentry Bros. stock.
Bob

Anonymous said...

Bob is correct. Photos 1 to 6 show the mostly ex-Gentry and Bailey Bros. wagons that were accumulated by Frank Walters. They were later dispersed.

The bandwagon in photo 5 did serve on Norris Bros., as confirmed in a recent photo discovery. It burned at Beatty's quarters in Deming, NM, but the late Tommy White of Jacksonville, FL claimed to have acquired the remnants from the fire.

The cage in photo 3 went to a fellow in IL, a friend of Concello's, and is now at CWM.

The Gentry ticket wagon [not photo 1] once owned by Walters went to the Hertzberg Circus Collection, now owned by the Witte Museum.

Perry Luth published an article about the Walters wagons in CHS Bandwagon about 1969.

What title is painted on the wagon in photo 2?

Ole Whitey said...

Anonymous: I don't dispute your Norris Bros info at all but just to have it in the record, Tommy White told me many years ago that when Beatty talked about the wagon to him, he referred to it as his "Gentry Bros Bandwagon."

Tommy thought Beatty was incorrect but he passed this on to me just as a matter of interest.

Mr Beatty had little interest in the origin of various wagons. Tom Parkinson told me a similar story regarding a wagon on the railroad show (# 80, the arena wagon).

Tom suspected that it had been built from one of the former 1938 Hagenbeck-Wallace wagons but when he brought this up, Beatty said that it had come with the Sparks equipment, which Tom knew not to be the case but of course he let it pass.