Buckles Blog: #2 1950's Kelly-Miller

Friday, February 12, 2016

Well known Circus fan Chalmer Condon visiting with Dores Richard Miller.

Harry Kingston said...: I sure miss all of D R's stories as it is a shame that someone did not write a book on Mr. Circus.
And how nice he was to us circus fans.
Buying elephants from Ringling, the return of one his airplanes, and I was with him when he tried to buy $2000 in quarters from a small Texas bank,and one year when the Stayles had the cook house for a 4th of July meal and OMG what it cost, etc.
I asked him on the 1956 season when Kelly Miller came out with Last of the circus see it now or miss it forever, and he said we just jammed them.
Ringling gave up the tent and Kelly Miller was rolling in $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Harry in Texas; 12 February, 2016 07:05
4pawfan said...: Superintendent of the Cass county school system for a long time. Cass county is just west of Peru, Ind. I wrote about his work saving all the wagons from the Peru WQ wagon burnings on your blog on 10-26-2013. For those that have asked, I have not found how the wagons taken from the Ringling Museum by Mattle that never went to Circus World, never showed up on the Mattle Inc. books either. They would have been almost priceless in valve even back then.; 12 February, 2016 18:14

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