Wednesday, March 23, 2011

1938 Cole Bros. Program #12


Scan13351, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 3/23/2011 05:56:00 AM

6 comments:

J C Hall said...

My mother spoke of this act on the Cole show and it seems she said they were french. Never the less she said the gent ended up getting busted up. Then he put his wife in the car and she ended up in the hospital. Their helper was in line next ; also got busted up. They imported someone else and he survived, she said, long enough to repeat the crew starting with the owner and again his wife, both making repeat trips to the hospital.Quite an act,quite an act she said.

23 March, 2011 21:09
Anonymous said...

Was his the act that the Cresso Rocket Car was patterned after?
cc

24 March, 2011 08:23
Chic Silber said...

On a good day the Cresso car did

1 somersault & landed in the bed

of the rolled canvas basket weave

covering of a steel frame

On other days it might land partly

on the bed or maybe next to it

Watching the poor kid fumble with

the matches trying to light the

gerbs could bring a tear

I believe the driver was adopted

24 March, 2011 18:17
Chic Silber said...

The driver's helmet was the 1st

point of impact much of the time

& it protected the car from any

serious damage

The seat belt was secured to the

plywood seat that was very poorly

attached to the frame of the car

The whole shebang was very much

a thrill attraction

24 March, 2011 18:20
harry cresso said...

hi!the blog about the cresso rocketcar;the"kid"is still alive and really want contakt.i live in sweden and my e-mailaddress is:hcresso@yahoo.se looking forward to have your answer chic silber

06 September, 2011 05:28
Chic Silber said...

Hi Harry glad to hear you survived

I'm in a couple of crazy weeks of

working on a new production at a

more frantic pace than I like

I'll get in touch with you later

06 September, 2011 13:31

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