Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Mt. Olivet Cemetery #1


Posted by Buckles at 6/04/2014 04:43:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I was on the show with both John and Kenny--note that the elephant guys all died young, late 50s, early 60s, by today's standards.

04 June, 2014 22:10
Anonymous said...

I was on the Cristiani/Wallace Show and John was there. We had an old Piano in the barn in Winter Quarters and one night Norma started playing it and singing old songs... I recall she was belting out Ragtime Cowboy Joe and John Carroll started crying. I guess it brought back nostalgic memories of Hugo, OK.
In '67 on KM there was a tottoo artist came on the show and a lot
of guys got tattoos John Carroll got one on his shoulder... it was the entire route card for the year.

05 June, 2014 13:16
Roger Smith said...

On some lot around Ft. Worth that year, I had visited John and Okie exactly 2 weeks before John died of a sudden heart attack. I heard he was working the elephant ride, and dropped dead in his tracks. Later, the best story about John was that he never collected his pay. With cookhouse, a sleeper, and Carson & Barnes as his home, and with no habits, he left his money in the office. Later in his life, he asked D.R. Miller to invest it for him. He wanted the old show guys to have some support in tough times, and especially to have a decent burial. Mr. Miller did well by John's wishes. Hugo historians can add more to John's legacy.

05 June, 2014 17:42
Buckles said...

I once asked John Carroll how he started out in show biz and he hired out as a cage boy for Terrell Jacobs in Chicago in the late 1940's.

07 June, 2014 13:24

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