Wednesday, March 02, 2011

From Buckles #2


Scan11084, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

My dad wrote on the back:

"Carson & Barnes- 1959
Col. Tim McCoy and Jack Moore."

Posted by Buckles at 3/02/2011 05:50:00 AM

4 comments:

Buckles said...

Jack Moore's original title was the Tex Carson Circus. His first elephant "Mabel" was leased from D.R. Miller in 1954.
In 1958 he leased two more, "Jenny" and old "Ringling Josky".
With the show growing in size he decided that "Tex Carson" had dog & pony connoations so he came up with "Carson & Barnes" a title that has now been in constant use for over half a century.

02 March, 2011 07:14
Anonymous said...

McCoy once stopped and visited the original Circus World Museum library, the small frame structure by the former Ringling Car Shops. It was staffed by Bob Parkinson, one of whose childhood heroes was McCoy. Bob arranged to have a photo taken showing McCoy with lithos from his ill-fated 1938 venture. Needless to say, the visit made Bob's day, an experience that he gladly recalled for others.

02 March, 2011 08:55
Ole Whitey said...

Col McCoy was a very friendly person. We were back on the show (Carson and Barnes) one Sunday and I took one of those red 2-sheets of his over to his trailer to ask him to sign it. He had me come in and he chatted with me quite a while.

Years later when Mary Jane and I were on the Hanneford advance, we drove through a small town in Ontario where Tommy Scott was playing.

I went by the building hoping to introduce Mary Jane to the Colonel but alas he had gone fishing and we had to get down the road.

02 March, 2011 14:45
Paul H. said...

I was just reading through a copy of Fred Pfening Jr.'s great history of the ill-fated McCoy wild west show. He dropped $200k (in 1938 dollars) in that venture.

I understand that was his life savings and he spent pretty much the rest of his days in show business working to pay it all back.

04 March, 2011 00:37

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