Tuesday, May 03, 2011

From Jim Elliott #4


05-01-2011 12;54;01PM, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Identified as Howes Great London 1922 but 1921 was the last season the Corp. used the Howes Title.
Interesting picture tho, elephant backing this Tab into position while the gentleman at left poles the wagon.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 5/03/2011 06:27:00 AM

2 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

This is the old Dode Fisk bandwagon. It was on Howes Great London 1921 (actually they spelled it Howe's) and Gollmar Bros 1922, which were the same show with a leased title in 1922.

This wagon, like much of the 1922 Gollmar show, was taken into Peru prior to the 1923 season and became part of the 1923 Robinson show.

It remained with that show as long as it was out, which is to say through 1930.

03 May, 2011 07:28
Anonymous said...

This bandwagon and a tableau with side paintings served many years under Mugivan & Bowers after they bought the Fisk outfit, and later on the American Circus Corporation.

The vehicles had been fabricated by the Moeller brothers of Baraboo. A semi-famous photograph shows the Fisk wagons all lined up on Third Avenue, in front of the Moeller place, which remains standing today as part of a retail furniture store, and the Baptist church, which has relocated. [See Conover's Wisconsin book, page 46]

Clarence Kachel photographed the ex-Fisk bandwagon in its later days on John Robinson, serving as a baggage wagon. It was published in Bandwagon years ago.

The Corporation did more parade and cage to baggage wagon conversions that any other outfit. It must have been an expense-driven proposition, the proprietors prefering to put their money into their bank, as opposed to building new wagons.

03 May, 2011 09:58

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