Thursday, June 28, 2018

B & B PAGE 7


Posted by Chic Silber at 6/28/2018 12:28:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


John Ringling North's

"Continental Circus"

New York World's Fair 1964

Assembled by Art Concello

28 June, 2018 12:55
Roger Smith said...

Or, "The circus that just as well wasn't". Buckles tells us the throngs stayed away by the thousands.

But as we see, empty seats or no, Barbara styles like she's playing to SRO houses, and shows us all how it's done.

28 June, 2018 19:34
Chic Silber said...


Don't recall if they finished

the first year but sloughed

before the second

28 June, 2018 19:48
Roger Smith said...

I'd worked in Live Show in '62, when Six Flags in Arlington, Texas, was in infancy. Late in '63, many of us were contacted and asked to work the Six Flags show at this same World's Fair. The schedule demanded we take a New York City apartment 2 months before we got there, and continue to pay 2 months after our show closed. No kidding, and just try to get out of a New York apartment lease. Plus, we'd have to forego a college Fall semester, work through the summer, and on into the Spring semester, meaning we'd blow 2 semesters of college. No one I knew went, and they cast the show from New York talent. It was a bum deal all around, and most of us knew it. The event itself proved a disaster, and the vast public agreed.

29 June, 2018 18:55

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