From Richard Reynolds

!cid_X_MA1_1339695305@aol, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr. The blog recently mentioned Duggan Bros. This is a 1934 photo from its date in Parsons, KS. The Duggan show was founded and operated in 1934 by a Georgian, W. F. Duggan. His nephew is Stan May of Jonesboro, GA. Stan’s mother was W. F.’s sister and the aunt of W. F. “Dub” Duggan Jr., Stan’s first cousin. W. F. Duggan’s son, Dub, produced the 1951 Hagen-Wallace opera and after that some shopping center shows. As a youngster, Stan May was on various post-World War II wild animal shows owned by his uncle, old W.F. and also on those of his first cousin Dub Duggan. When Atlanta’s new CFA tent was organized in 1970, we charter members named it “Duggan Bros.” On a comic note, at a subsequent CFA national convention, several veteran CFAers, none of whom knew a quarter’s worth of circus history ( including Secretary-Treasurer Herm Linden), told our tent President Doc Fitzpatrick that none of them had never heard of any Duggan Bros. circus; therefore there was no such a thing, and that our the tent had to get a new name. Doc came back all upset and called Joe Bradbury. Joe got angry and told Doc not to listen to such bull from the uninformed, assuring Doc that there was indeed a Duggan Bros. That prompted Joe to write its history - - “Duggan Bros. Circus,” White Tops, Mar-Apr, 1985.