This very nice stand from 1935 is for the first ever appearance of Adkins and Terrell's Cole Bros circus in Chicago. At the same time that Clyde Beatty was appearing at the Chicago Coliseum, Hagenbeck Wallace Forepaugh-Sells with Bert Nelson was providing opposition across town at the Chicago Stadium - and still using some of the Beatty paper from 1934! Perhaps Ole Whitey can corroborate, but a banner stand like this in front of a parking lot frequently caused problems for the "banner puller" who came around to take down the banners. Evidently the tacks that didn't go into the wall landed in the parking lot - and the tires of the 1930s were frequently punctured by those "dead soldiers" who missed their mark. |
Sunday, February 12, 2012
"Banners" #2
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Interesting point, Chris. You will see in this display (as well as in yesterday's from New York) that the Cole show was using some banners that had originally been printed when Beatty was with Hagenbeck-Wallace- it's the same image of Beatty with the standing lion that is on the 1934 HW program cover.
Wonder what they paid local kids
to pick up the "dead soldiers"
for reuse (surely must have done)
What length were the tacks
Don't know about the Cole Show, but Ringling's banner puller work out of motorcyle with a side car in the 30's and it would have rained dead soldiers when the banners were pulled I bet.
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