Friday, May 16, 2014

From Dave Price


Here's picture from your dad's collection that appeared in an excellent
Thayer/Conover article in the May-June 1969 Bandwagon. The cage was one
of those constructed by Moeller Bros to replace those lost in a late
1892 Ringling Bros train wreck.

The carvings on the Soules bandwagon and "Wolf Tableau" came from one
side of this wagon. He framed "the Circus parade without a circus" and
later teamed up with LeRoy to form the V&H show which lasted one day in
1942. George Hubler was present and took the pix that day.

The wagons were left at Terrell Jacobs' quarters and Soules soon died.
Jacobs sold the bandwagon and two cages to Floyd King and at least some
of the other wagons were acquired by Lieutenant Lee Allen Estes of the
Kentucky Highway Patrol from Jacobs' estate and thence to the Circus
World Museum from Estes.



2 comments:

Dick Flint said...

The bandwagon and maybe another wagon or two somehow got to the Shelburne Museum in Vermont around about the 1960s but at some point moved on to where I know not.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Dick Flint said...

The sides of this one or one of its near mates ended up on the sides of a Hunt brothers truck.
Dick Flint
Baltimore