Wednesday, August 01, 2018

CANNON #6


Posted by Chic Silber at 8/01/2018 12:47:00 AM

4 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This is Wilno's cannon as shown

above in #5 when it was on the

Beatty Show in the early 60s

Luis Munoz Sr was performing

with it & ended up buying it

Vermin had chewed thriugh the

insulation on some of the wiring

over the previous winter which

caused some shorting & I was

asked to make some repairs

This gave me my 1st opportunity

to gain some of the secrets

After that I was trusted by

Edmundo "Pappa" Zacchini in

San Juan Puerto Rico to help

him with a few projects

These were the 1st 2 cannons

that I learned much from

01 August, 2018 09:22
Chic Silber said...


Pappa was a terrific cook

& invited me to several of

his fantastic dinners

Just another link in the

long chain of my good luck

01 August, 2018 09:26
Roger Smith said...

At L is 96 Bible Wagon, as driven by our 1st Trumpet, Thomas X. Napoli. When Mr. Beatty was off the show for the rest of '64, recovering from cancer surgery, I was Tommy's shotgun in 96, and thereby got let in on the real inside skinny of the backyard jackpots. Tommy was one of those guys who actually knew where all the bodies were buried and taught me an enduring lesson for survival on a circus: KEEP YOUR F'ING MOUTH SHUT!!

01 August, 2018 19:20
Chic Silber said...


Interesting that many years

later Luis' son Luis Jr both

drove & was the flyer for

Elvin's Big Boy & another

of Luis' sons Chris created

his own sled or wagon style

smaller cannon

01 August, 2018 21:02

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