Monday, October 31, 2016

#15 Circus Art


3 comments:

Harry Kingston said...

A great job of tacking up cloth banners for the opening of the new Cole Bros Clyde Beatty circus and the human flies that tacked them.
They left the guys parking 25 cents sign and covered the rest.
It is gone with the wind now but very effective back then in 1935 and had to be taken down before the circus left town.
The guys with a mouth full of tacks and a magnetic hammer hanging from long wood ladders.
Those were the days

Chic Silber said...


5 cent burgers caught my eye

Roger Smith said...

A common question was whether any of these tack-spitters ever swallowed their tacks. Yes, they did, and the life-saving remedy was to immediately consume a loaf of bread, which they kept close at hand.