Sunday, December 02, 2012

From Paul Gutheil


 Just sent the attached pic I took of Gunther's herd entering Central
Park in March 1993 to Jando for possible use in Circopedia.

Got me wondering, I think I can count about 15 bulls in this pic and I
know they left some at the Garden...so my question is......

How many bulls did the Red Show carry in 1993 ? Also wondering how many
out there realize that March of next year marks
220 years of the Circus in America.

Posted by Buckles at 12/02/2012 05:57:00 AM

8 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

I think that's the Coliseum at right, where Beatty-Cole played over Christmas 1962 and had poor results due to the newspaper strike.

Beatty played three New York City venues over the years and all are gone: the old Hippodrome on Sixth Ave, the Garden at Eighth Ave and 49th Street and this one.

02 December, 2012 10:50
Buckles said...

There was a place near here called Tavern on the Green that Bobby Johnson liked and would take me and Barbara when he visited us with Big Apple.

02 December, 2012 11:02
Chic Silber said...


Yes Dave that WAS the old coliseum

That's Columbus of Columbus Circle

on the pedestal up behind the bulls

Perhaps Henrry can tell us who that

is in the red jacket

02 December, 2012 17:43
Chic Silber said...


Sorrowfully the Tavern on the Green

at 67th Street in the park has been

closed about 3 years now after many

incarnations starting life before

the turn of last century as a sheep

barn for the park's sheep meadow

It 1st became a restaurant in 1934

but Warner LeRoy put it on the map

as a serious destination in 1976

It was a favorite facility for the

best of the Broadway opening nights

02 December, 2012 17:49
GaryHill said...

Warner LeRoy was the creator of Great Adventure! He would of made a great Circus owner...really nice man that loved to come to my elephant barn and just watch the babys..:)

03 December, 2012 01:31
Chic Silber said...


The owner of Potomac, the biggest
and most extravagant restaurant in
Washington, said yesterday he was
closing it after only 15 months
because of a dispute with the
landlord. (in October of 1987)
Warner LeRoy, who owned the $10
million, 900-seat restaurant
overlooking the Potomac River at
the foot of Georgetown, said
yesterday that the restaurant
would close after dinner last
night. He said his decision was
prompted in part by a rise in the
common charges - fees paid to the
landlord to cover things like
security, landscaping and taxes
from $45,000 to $300,000 a year.

Warner LeRoy, a son of Hollywood
pioneers who combined show
business glamour with circus
ballyhoo to create New York
restaurants like Maxwell's Plum,
Tavern on the Green and the new
Russian Tea Room, died February 23,
2001. He was 65.

Nobody could out-showbiz Warner in
a restaurant. When he took control
of Tavern on the Green in 1973, it
was a rustic little money-losing
pub. After years of renovations
with enormous cost overruns, the
restaurant reopened as a vision of
dazzling carved wood, molded
plaster ceilings and shimmering
glass, with crystal chandeliers,
statues and murals. It became one
of the top-grossing restaurants in
the country.

03 December, 2012 08:45
Anonymous said...

Chic: If you're kidding, you got me...

Man in Red Jacket...Gunther.

The little girl waving knows and you and I known today's Columbus Circle is worlds apart from that of 1993.

Paul

03 December, 2012 10:57
Chic Silber said...


With those dark glasses & cap Paul

I wasn't certain & he didn't seem

to be at the front of the parade

03 December, 2012 12:43

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