Buckles Blog: #5 Cristiani

Sunday, October 01, 2017

The "Pete & Norma" Five including the future "King Tusk" while they were booked on the Cristiani Show.

BARBARA WOODCOCK said...: I have to apologize to Buckles & to his readers. I told Buckles that this picture was taken on the Cristiani Circus. It was on the Diano Bros. Circus. Ben was six weeks old when we opened with Diano & Ben Davenport. We moved everyday, & did a parade everyday. That is why my legs are sunburned. Those were Dailey Bros. headpieces. Boy that was a hard show as there were also baby diapers to wash every day in buckets. We couldn't afford the throw away diapers. Which I understand were no more than like paper towels. I wouldn't know because I couldn't afford them. " WHAT AND GIVE UP CIRCUS.".....Barbara....; 01 October, 2017 19:53
BARBARA WOODCOCK said...: Oh yes, some people think that my son Ben was named after Ben Davenport. He wasn't. He was named after His grandfathers on both sides. Ben after Rex's father. And Harold after my father. He didn't like to be called Benny. That was his nick name as a child. I did that to him. I miss him so much. It is 8 years tomorrow that he passed away. Two days after my birthday.....Barbara....; 01 October, 2017 20:11
Roger Smith said...: This is something we share. My daughter Miriam Lara passed in 1968, in the same Spring we lost Arky Scott and Mabel Stark.; 02 October, 2017 16:26

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