Buckles Blog: Unidentified #6

Thursday, February 03, 2011

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Ole Whitey said...: Maybe a Gentry Bros unit? These look like the wagons that Frank Walter got long afterward.; 03 February, 2011 00:22
Dick Flint said...: One can see a couple of ex-Gentry cages built by Sullivan & Eagle of Peru that were part of Frank Walters' collection. There appears to be a tent on the opposite side of the wooden fence. The man we see in these pictures, however, is not Walters. Another neat little cage supposedly by Sullivan & Eagle, though less ornate and maybe smaller, came to Circus World Museum about 1973 but is overshadowed by all the bigger rail show wagons there.
Dick Flint
Baltimore; 03 February, 2011 10:01
Anonymous said...: A couple of these small cages were still in the Houston area till the late 60's early 70's, with one belonging to the Stancliffs I think. It was used in local malls to promote the Shrine dates. Most of the others were lost in the Beatty winterquarters fire.
Perry Luth and Don Carson did a great article on Walters and his wagons in the 1969 Nov-Dec Bandwagon which you can bring up on the Circus Historical web site. Would be interested to hear of what happened to the wagons belonging to Tommy Holmes, J.Pabst, and others.
p.j.; 03 February, 2011 10:32
Ole Whitey said...: Dick: I think his name was just Walter with no "s."; 03 February, 2011 11:22

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