Buckles Blog: 4Paw-Sells #1 (From Buckles)

Sunday, July 20, 2014

In relation to Richard Reynolds recent comments, here are a few random 4Paw-Sells items.

Richard Reynolds said...: Here we see the distinctive red and blue typing of old man E. W. Adams.

I knew him pretty well. I often visited him in his humble surroundings in 1954 and 1955. He lived in various places in the Atlanta area over the years. One of them was a small house in the backyard of a larger place. He had one room and a bathroom. He had a bed and desk, typewriter and a chair or two .There was a heat lamp and electric grill top with two burners - -no telephone.

The rest of the place was crammed with trunks filled with routes plus envelopes with circus ads and news from the places played by various shows - -hundreds and hundreds of them.

If you asked him about Hagenbeck Wallace in Nashville, for example, he could pull out an envelope for any year they played there with ads and write-ups. He also had posters and photos.

Old Adams died around the end of 1957. I got some of his stuff and Joe Bradbury got more (both while he was alive and afterwards). Most of the rest was sold by his son to a dealer in California. Still more wound up in various antique stores.; 21 July, 2014 13:38
Ole Whitey said...: Richard: I was hoping you'd get in here. You probably told me Mr Adams was from Nashville but I had forgotten it. I have a few of his old ads with the red & blue typing.; 21 July, 2014 20:26

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