Monday, July 21, 2014

From Chic Silber #3


4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Interesting note that both the

letterhead & this route card

show the same box number 1570

in Winter Park (the old office)

but 2 different zip codes (huh)

Back in the early 60s the mail

address was the Van Skike Bldg

on Orange Ave in Sarasota

Dick Flint said...

I saw it in Madison Wisconsin on August 30 that year on my way from a summer working in the library at Baraboo to graduate school in New York State. If I hadn't made it to the lot in Madison on my drive east, I would not have a perfect record of seeing the show every year from 1961-2014. I clearly remember talking to circus fan Sverre Braathen on the lot in a wheelchair. He is remembered as an avid photographer and collector, having obtained some of the old Ringling records from their winter quarters in the 1930s. The other half of those records, incidentally, were picked up by Baraboo Bill Kasiska. Braathen's stuff went to Illinois State University while Kasiska's was obtained by the Pfennings.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Chic Silber said...


Coincidently Dick it was that

same year (72) in Madison that

I took Jean Berveaux (widower

of Stella Zerbini & father of

Gilda) 1st to a dentist & then

on to an oral surgeon with a

raging dental infection & at

that time Jean spoke little

English & I spoke less French

Chic Silber said...


Dick in 61 I kudent evin spel

sirkis but I sure cawt on kwik

I live a charmed life between

the theater & circus industries