Wednesday, November 12, 2014

From Sue Lenz #5


5 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Thanks Sue these are all great

Interesting showtimes unless it

was intended to give latecomers

time to get seated for come in

Chic Silber said...


I like the 4 digit phone number

Chic Silber said...


I'm guessing your mom was Astley

Sue & married a Yelding

Chic Silber said...


I wonder if these posters were

generic pictorials that might

have been used by other shows

as the green panels suggest

Sue Lenz said...

Astley was a “Stage name” very cleverly taken by my mothers family. They ran the Astley’s Royal Circus, also sometimes called Astley’s American Circus during the mid 1920’s until late 1930’s early 1940’s
The photo is of two programs not posters.

I have lots of pictures of their Circus that I got after my mother passed away and the only information of the dates that I have are mostly by my memory that I was told as a child and by guessing by how old I think my mother was in some pictures as she was born in 1921.