Wednesday, February 05, 2014

More Bannerlines #3


7 comments:

Chic Silber said...


These hard panel banner boards

were mounted on 2 semis but I

can't recall which ones

Chic Silber said...


Might have been working men's

sleeper & sideshow trucks

Ole Whitey said...

"Miss Edna" Antes had a compartment in one of these- at least at one time she did. Maybe she got a trailer later.

Dick Flint said...

I think I've seen one picture of her in the doorway of a semi room but I always remember her (from the 1960s on when I annually saw the show) in an Airstream and parked with other management at the front of the lot). In later years Jimmy James was her driver.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Roger Smith said...

Forgot to note--86 & 85 were the sleepers which featured the well-done panels along the sides. These did not serve, however, as entraceways to the Side Show. They were parked back end to back end, across the midway from the Side Show, and the "banners" were just for flash.

Roger Smith said...

In '81, I drove and slept in 86, the Boss's Sleeper, which faced into the Big Top. The King Pole was tied off to this front bumper, and Barry on canvas, used to implore me to start up and get my air up so I could release the brakes and inch forward, allowing him slack to untie the rigging. He hated to wait while the air built up.

In '64, Miss Edna resided in a smaller Airstream, parked as Dick said, up there with Frank Orman's and other staffers. Jane Beatty referred to it as "Just darling."

Chic Silber said...


If you enlarge this image Roger

you will see that in this period

of time there was an entrance to

the Side Show between the trucks