Buckles Blog: #3 Animal Acts

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Gee Gee Powell.

Patricia said...: Gee Gee loved her Huskies, and spoke of them often.
How many years did she have this act, and which years? She probably told me, but I have forgotten.; 22 July, 2017 07:49
Roger Smith said...: The first time I met Gee Gee and Billy Powell was in 1965, just after Mr. Beatty died. Her Alaskans were on Howard Suesz's Clyde Bros., and the act was a relatively new sensation, but I never knew when it originated. Everyone smiled at Gee Gee working the malamutes like a fighting cat act, cracking her whip, and having extra whips laying on the ring curb. She had flash in that act that was never duplicated. She wanted a whip like Beatty's, with the twisted willow whipstock, and I presented her with one of mine, plus 3 extra Barbour's Flax poppers.; 22 July, 2017 15:15
Patricia said...: Thanks, Roger. That narrows it down, mid-60's. Maybe another reader will have more info too?; 23 July, 2017 10:04

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