Saturday, May 12, 2012

CASTLES BEARS #1

CASTLE1 by bucklesw1
CASTLE1, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Hi Brigadier

How could we have left out the Castle Bears

Chic

Posted by Buckles at 5/12/2012 06:06:00 AM

8 comments:

Mike Naughton said...

Jimmy and Tepa's entrance with the wagon and bears is 100 per cent circus!

12 May, 2012 06:50
Wade G. Burck said...

Mike,
I don't know. The act lost something when the jefe ran off and married that tiger guy......

Wade Burck

12 May, 2012 08:38
Jim Zajicek said...

I consider my Castle Bearcart CDL one of my Finest Tanbark achievements...

12 May, 2012 08:59
Chic Silber said...

Did you build the cart Jim

12 May, 2012 10:12
JC Hall said...

Chic,
This wagon toured on the 1936 RBBB season;Or so I was told by an old circus fan on the east coast while we were touring with the Vidbel tent circus.I did not want to break his heart with the truth.The
ginger bread was done by Johnny Zoppe Jr. The rest was done by me with my jigsaw technology.

12 May, 2012 13:32
Wade G. Burck said...

Folks don't realize it, but you may be watching history made each time you go to a James Castle Hall performance. My understanding is he is attempting to knock Herbie Weber out of the record books as "The Oldest Performer in the Circus World Today Still doing Ta Da's."

Zych, he never thought I would listen long enough to earn a Castle Bearcart CDL. He found it was easier to teach my son instead. That's bullshit, right?

Wade Burck

12 May, 2012 14:04
Chic Silber said...

Nice to hear you were kind to that

showfan Jimmy but we have all heard

SOMUCH rewritten show history that

it's often hard to keep a straight

face during the retelling

Is this wagon electric powered

The sunburst wheels & the gold

rococo scrollwork look terrific

(Held up really well from 36)

12 May, 2012 19:35
JC Hall said...

Chic
Battery run,Tepa did the daubing on the wheels.

13 May, 2012 12:45

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