Thursday, October 18, 2012

1936 Ken Maynard Circus #1 (From Buckles)

Posted by Buckles at 10/18/2012 06:09:00 AM

5 comments:

Down the Road by Jim said...

Buck Jones on Silver

18 October, 2012 10:23
Eric said...

This is actually Buck Jones, whose career in wild west shows, circuses and the movies roughly paralleled that of Maynard’s. (Rumor had it that Jones and Maynard didn’t get along.) Buck died in the 1942 Cocoanut Grove fire, while Maynard lived into the 1970s. As a result of his taste for drink, Maynard’s circumstances in his latter years were most humble. Someone once told me that Gene Autry provided him with a modest pension. (Autry had made his screen debut in the Maynard film IN OLD SANTA FE. Autry’s first starring film, the serial THE PHANTOM EMPIRE, was originally intended to star Maynard.) I seem to recall that a photo of Maynard, taken in the 1970s when he visited the Ringling show, appeared in one of the Ringling programs from that time.

18 October, 2012 11:05
Ole Whitey said...

Once I mentioned Buck Jones to a younger friend and he said he'd wondered who Jones was.

Of course I told him about the fire and he said, "That explains why the law requiring revolving doors to be flanked by regular doors is called "the Buck Jones Law."

I had never heard of such a law but it makes sense.

18 October, 2012 12:12
4pawfan said...

All commercial buildings have to have doors that open out under the same law. The Cocoanut Grove's doors were push-in type from the outside. The mass of people pushing to get out, made it impossible to open the door, thus the law made it so all that all doors have to push out to open.
p.j.

18 October, 2012 18:15
Chic Silber said...


This only hold true in the US of A

& it's territories & protectorates

Here in Europe many doors open in

19 October, 2012 05:00

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