Sunday, September 04, 2016

#16 Blue Show


14 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Elephants as far as the eye can see

Paul Gutheil said...

This irreplaceable image should be in every collection! Alone in its greatness!

Chic Silber said...


As the mesh arena is

being hoisted in prep

for Charly Baumann's

tiger act the lighted

bottle walk I built

is suspended above it

Taurus activated the

internal lighting in

each of the cylinders

as he walked across

Chic Silber said...


If you hadn't seen this

then you really missed it

Very clearly never again

Buckles said...

This was the long mount that concluded the Show's opening.
We also did a cross mount on the front track at the conclusion of the elephant display.

Buckles said...

As the last elephant exited past the arena, Charly already had the tigers seated and into the first trick.
No Dilly Dally in those days.

Chic Silber said...


On those 6 pack weekends

any dilly dally would have

left no time between shows

to get em out & get em in

Chic Silber said...


With Opening Menage

Spec & Finale we had

4 elephant parades

GaryHill said...

Once again I made the Blog...pushing tigers.

Chic Silber said...


I guess it's better

Gary to push them

than to pull them

None of Charly's were

on a leash or collar

Chic Silber said...


My alltime favorites

of all the animal acts

on "Big Bertha" were

Buckles elephants &

Charly's tigers but

I thoroughly enjoyed

so many others

GaryHill said...

True Chic..Jewell New actually had a couple lease Lions..Kenneth the Motorcycle riding cat was a good lease cat..he hated to walk but would ride on anything..

GaryHill said...

Chic, I have always felt so Lucky to have been hired my Dr Henderson and to have worked for/with Buckles, Jewell and Charyl.

Chic Silber said...


We were certainly there

at just the right times

If it weren't for dumb

luck I'd have no luck

at all Gary