When the 100th anniversary of the Ringling show was celebrated, the advertising
got Otto and Charles mixed up. Those two portraits at the left are mislabeled.
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
From Dave Price
Boys From Baraboo #6
Outstanding picture, I marvel at how these well dressed gentlemen would scramble up on top of a railroad car to get a better view.
If you could go back in time and tell them, "One hundred years from now the show will get rid of these things!.....I wonder what their response would be?
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Question?
 From Tony Greiner
To do this trick, do the elephants link trunks and then rear back, or do they
link after getting on their hind legs?
If after they get on their hind legs, how does the human get on with any dignity? |
Monday, March 30, 2015
From Buckles
The elephant's head used in Chic's balancing chair picture is "Josky" as seen above in 1957.
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40's Pix #1 (From Buckles)
Miss Bogart aboard "Sudan".
Fred Logan once told me her father owned a Funeral Parlor in Brooklyn. |
Sunday, March 29, 2015
For the ladies! #1
Today's topic is on animal props so I decided to add these first few glamour photos for the lady viewers so they can continue on with their normal routines without being bored.
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Animal Props #1
This is Adele Nelson and Louie Reed with "Myrtle", "Tillie" and "Jenny" recently mentioned as being purchased by Ben Davenport for his Dailey Bros. Circus in 1942 and eventually the first elephants Barbara worked with.
But more importantly, the tubs Rex and Smokey had to polish. |
Animal Props #2
Adele Nelson in flight.
The elephant would mount the teeter-board, walk forward past it's apex, tipping it forward, then take one large step back vaulting Miss Nelson into flight.
I was always curious as to how the prop was transported from town to town.
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Animal Props #4
Christian Zeitz with the prolific "Alice" and "Snyder" who would later provide the Sells-Floto Circus with several calves.
Notice the hand loop on Snyder's tub. |
Animal Props #8
This is Louie Reed at the Sparks Quarters in Macon with what appears to be early metal bull tubs. They look pretty sturdy.
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Animal Props #9
Great picture of a dinner table routine.
How well I remember the countless hours I stood in boredom while my father taught elephants to replace the bell on the table without tipping it over but it sure came in handy later.
He told me he had once seen this number done with a chimp as the waiter, dressed in a tuxedo.
I don't quite understand what part the dogs are playing here.
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Animal Props #10
This is more like it.
Chic isn't that spindle composed of a couple of tire rims!
My kind of handiwork.
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