So Gentlemen (& I use that term very loosely)
Here is a slightly improved smoke ring illusion
I somehow feel like I just did the "One And Only"
a great injustice but hopefully no 1 will take offense
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Friday, September 07, 2012
From Chic Silber #1
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The street shown at the left side
is the very block of 44th where
the Cole elephants were lined up
Also where the Royalton still is
Over the years from 1941 til 1966
many different faces were shown to
blow the smoke (steam) rings & at
some point the words "costlier
tobaccos" were replaced with
"I'd Walk A Mile For A Camel"
The background was bright red
& the lettering was all in neon
A nice job with the rings, but if you look at Clyde's mouth there's no way he could be blowing same. The subject(s) of the old signs always had a big round hole where the smoke was "puffed". I think it was in the same area that there was a huge steam iron expelling steam. I like seeing Cltde's whole face anyway.
Chic you are an amazing man I hope, if you haven't already, you will be writing your autobiography.
I would say the same to the Messrs Woodcock & Herriott. You all have laptops so please find time and START WRITING.
Paul
Thanks Paul but you'll have to talk
to Dave Price when he gets his new
computer as his old 1 has become a
speed bump (ask Buckles) as he did
the marvelous photo insertion & I
only added the smoke rings
I definitely agree with Paul; all three of your autobiographies would make fascinating reading. I asked that question of Chic, and he responded that he didn't think there would be much interest in that. We beg to differ. Recently I re-read 'The Circus at the Edge of the Earth', by Canadian journalist Charles Wilkins. In 1997 he traveled with Rick Wallenda's Great Wallenda Circus on the route from hell (or TO hell might be more accurate) that went as far north as Thompson, in northern Manitoba. It'a a great read, and some of the best parts were his conversations with Bobby Gibbs.....
Page 163, The Circus at the Edge of the Earth, by Charles Wilkins
Bobby Gibbs, reflecting on that he'd missed 'the Golden Age' of circus: "Damn thing about those days," he brightened, "is I probably woudn't'a gone far anyway.
They had guys back then who were really talented around elephants. You shoulda seen the stuff they could do. A guy like me would probably have been a groom or something. I mean, I've done all right, but I've always had sombody helping me, encouraging me - Smoky Jones, Johnny Herriot, Buckles Woodcock."
A little off topic, but that Hotel Claridge was once the Manhattan home to both filmmaker D.W. Griffith and mob boss Lucky Luciano. In 1966 the Camel billboard stopped blowing smoke rings forever, and by the time that Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman used it as their home in the 1969 film Midnight Cowboy it had become a deteriorating flophouse. After the Claridge was torn down it was replaced by an office building (1500 Broadway) which includes, among other things, Disney's "Time Square Studios" home to ABC's Good Morning America studios.
Dave Price who is currently without
internet connection awaiting his
new computer mentioned that Floyd
King had stayed there regularly
The General Management & Production
office of Joe Harris Sr was in 1500
along with several others of note
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