These pictures come from several scrap books I purchased 20 years ago during the second season of the Romeo & Juliet tour on the Blue show.
Large Circus Fan gathering that day, on the back of each is stamped, "David P. Orr, CFA, CHS.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
1974 Lewis Bros. Circus #1
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Somebody please help me out here. Brownie and Josephine bought the Clark & Walters show, I assume from Herb Walters.
After a few years, they renamed it Fisher Bros after Josephine's family's show. At some point Mel and B K took it over.
Did Fisher Bros become Lewis Bros or were they two different shows?
Lewis Bros was John Lewis' outfit but wasn't he in partnership with Jimmy Silverlake and didn't Jimmy end up owning it?
I used to know this. This "middle age" really sucks.
The questions continue. After reading below I think maybe Lewis Bros was a spin off from Hoxie's # 2 show, which brings up: Where did Allan Hill's Great American come from?
I did some looking around and found a couple of takes on what happened on the CHS website under question # 987. "Black Diamond and John Lewis."
Apparently Hoxie bought the Lewis show, renamed it Hoxie's Great American and later sold it to Allan Hill. In the meantime Jimmy Silverlake called his show Barnes & Dailey.
Buckles: What has happened to all the old crocks who would have jumped on my questions asap not long ago?
And awhile back you posted a picture of Little Bob Stevens and not one person chimed in with recollections.
Have we outlived all the 20th Century circus folx?
I started the Lewis Show back in 1972. I bought Babe or Punk the elephant from the Maddens in Gainsville, Texas, and moved her and some other equipment to the Valley with Boddy Gibbs. Clark and Walters was wintering in a town about five miles away. Jim Silverlake and I decided to put the show out together in Medora. We were going to be partners in the Lewis Bros. Show. We moved all of my equipment, Tent, Seats, Trucks and Animals to Medora. After we got there, we both had different ideas of how to run the show, so I agreed to lease the show to Silverlake, and I returned to the Hoxie Show where I was Assistant Manager to John Hall.
In 1973, Hoxie and I decided to go into partners on a new Show which we were going to call Lewis Bros. and advised Jimmy that he would need to change the name of his show. He changed the name to Barnes and Daily. We put out a Lewis Bros Circus of which we were partners. I later took back the show I had leased to Silverlake and sold it to John Strong and Parley Baer in New Market, Alabama. I later put another Lewis Bros. out which was 100 percent mine, and the show Hoxie and I were partners in, was changed to Great American, which was sold to Allen Hill. I ran the Lewis Bros Circus for s short time and hired Don Prevost to run the show for me, and went back to Hoxie as the General Manager of the Hoxie Bros. Circus, until it closed as was also sold to Allen Hill.
Fisher Bros. or Clark and Walters was never a part of the Lewis Bros. Circus.
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