Wednesday, October 26, 2016

#1 Beatty-Cole


10 comments:

Harry Kingston said...

It is just so hard to believe all this is gone with the wind but have many great memories of the way it was.
Fall down South will never be the same with this great circus.
Some of the best show folks ever on this circus and a fan friendly circus.
Harry in Texas

Bob Swaney said...
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Chic Silber said...


Last of the real canvas

Chic Silber said...


Likely to be a hot summer day

with little chance of rain

as all ridge flaps are open

Chic Silber said...


This is the show I miss

the most as it's where

I learned how to spell

"Circus" in 61

Hal Guyon said...

Living here on the east coast, this was the show I grew up with and the one I always loved. I`ll truly miss this classic circus and will never forget the times I`ve seen it from the first truck coming on the lot, the performance and then watching the last truck pull of the lot.

Roger Smith said...

The CB in the diamond frames faced opposite one another over each ring, throughout the red panels. These first appeared when Mr. Beatty became a show owner, and remained during the Beatty-Cole years. Things were never the same when that call came to Clyde, Jr., advising that his father's name would no longer be on the title.

Chic Silber said...


That was partly his doing

through his shyster lawyers

It no longer matters Roger

Roger Smith said...

Maybe not to you. To me, it mattered from the day I talked to Clyde, Jr. about it--the day that call came.

Chic Silber said...


Our memories will remain

Roger of the show we knew

I only say it no longer

matters because it's gone

"Preserve Your Memories"

"They're All That's Left You"

The last lines of a Simon &

Garfunkel song "Time It Was"