Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Lots Of Excitement Today!



While at the Mall this afternoon I told my wife that I needed a new battery for my lawn mower and she said, "Go ahead and pick out a new one, the one you've been driving around looks pretty beat up."
They will add a front bumper and canopy then deliver it Thursday.
Now all I need is a helmet and scarf!


And Still More Globes! (From Chic)

Another Vasquez Photo (From Chic Silber)



 Aware of my proclivity a friend sent this better view of the mirrored ball.

More Globes! #1 (From Buckles)



The opening number with Kelly-Miller in 1950 was a five ring display of young elephants my dad had trained the previous winter doing various balancing feats such as the bottle walk, plank walk, hand-stand pedestal and rolling a globe.
Here is "Anna May" in training but the globe been salvaged from somebody's juggling act and quickly fell apart.
So  D.R. had Wayne Sanguin build a one which was done with the aid the Choctaw County Surveyor who marked the dimensions on a sheet of metal which Wayne then assembled like the skin on an orange.

More Globes! #2



Two years later we see "Anna May", now in the Miller-Woodcock elephant act, still rolling the new and improved version.
He once told me that he tried to get the band to play "Roll-A, Bowl-A, Ball, A Penny a Pitch!" but they ignored him.

CIRCO VASQUEZ HNOS. #19 (From Jim Hall)

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Last two photos of the gal doing the pole act not too good though I am sure I have seen this act in a different Venue in the past

JC Hall

(To Be Continued)


Monday, July 29, 2013

CIRCO VASQUEZ HNOS. #1 (From Jim Hall)



Took these photos in Dallas last month, over 50 in all.

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Show fleet.

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 Show horse trailer.

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Back door tent for staging show.

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 Inside the top.

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 Visitors Tepa Hall Antonio and Denise Olmeda.

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 Sound & Lighting Console.

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The tube in ring they lift Mirror ball out of it to the top of tent good effect.

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Mirror globe.

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 Show announcer.

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(To be continued)