40 years ago....Hoxie Bros. Circus played some dates in New Jersey in September. I got in the old dodge camper and drove down there from Rhode Island. Herriotts were on the show that year. |
Thursday, September 06, 2012
From Jim Cole
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I'm pretty sure that my cousin Mike
Bourbon was on Hoxie at that time
I spent my first 3 years in showbiz on Hoxie... Herriots and Mike Bourbon were there with us in 1972
Someone asked Hoxie Tucker why he painted the show trucks purple and he said if somebody blew the arrows all you had to do was ask, "Did you see a purple truck pass this way?"
1 of the running gags at the time
was that a "procurement supervisor"
obtained some "discarded" Red Show
paint & Blue Show paint & mixed
them together to make purple
We ended up painting all the road
boxes & equipment crates for the
Monte Carlo touring show for much
the same reason
This was sent as part of a set. Did you get the others?
Appears to be a conventional cab
"Cornbinder Loadstar" single screw
gas job from the mid 60s so clearly
not a heavy trailer load
I had a "horse" exactly like that
which was licensed in Andalusia
Alabama through the office of the
Judge of Probate Leland Enzor
Pehaps a few of you old crusties
might have had similar experiences
I believe the connection came from
Johnny Canole in Altoona
I better get some work done as this
is the end of yet another week
I remember Hoxie playing in NJ in 75, but I cant not remember who had the elephants? I walked around with him as he and I think Myrtle pulled stakes after the show in a rain storm...
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