Tuesday, July 03, 2018

CBCBC LIGHT PLANT #12


7 comments:

Chic Silber said...


The only true "Acme Show"

Biggest banana in the bunch

"Acme Circus Operating Co"

Where it all began for me

As a kid I recall Acme as

a gocery store (super market)

Chic Silber said...


I don't recognize that

style of lettering on

the truck so it's likely

to be before my time

Chic Silber said...


Not that very long ago

I got rid of those oval

enameled floodlights

(at least I think so)

Roger Smith said...

The Boss Electrician for years over there was Thomas Fitzpatrick, called "Kilowatt". We had two of these generator wagons on the lot, for the Front End, and for the Back Yard.

Eddie "Ma" Dullem told me he did this lettering job.

Chic Silber said...


I knew "Kilowatt" very well Roger

That would be "Mother" Dullom who

I also knew very well & he did a

terrific washerwomen gag with Glen

"Seacow" Hart on the front track

Eddie's partner was Allen "Buster"

Odle who had been mailman before

Kenny Dodd took it over

Chic Silber said...


The lettering I was most

familiar with on red trucks

was done by Roger Boyd who

had a sign shop in Valdosta

He smoked the same cigars as

Boom Boom & Dave Hoover but

mostly they just chewed on

the stumps

Roger Smith said...

To my eye, Roger Boyd's show painting was a vast improvement. His work shows the difference townies might not understand, between a sign painter and a show painter.