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. |
Friday, May 16, 2014
From Dave Price
Posted by Buckles at 5/16/2014 02:23:00 PM
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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
The sides of this one or one of its near mates ended up on the sides of a Hunt brothers truck.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
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