THE BALLOON MAN

Monday, December 1, 2008

GRAND CAROUSEL & WURLITZER BAND ORGAN

Kit Carson County Fairground Colorado

IF YOUR GOING TO LAS VEGAS---

I KNOW THAT SOMEONE WHO LOOKS AT THIS BLOG MUST BE GOING TO LAS VEGAS FOR THE SHOW. AND I IMAGINE SOME ONE OF YOU WILL BE ATTENDING THE BALLOON PEDDLERS COCKTAIL PARTY.

IF THAT SOMEONE COULD FIND THE TIME TO SNAP A FEW PICTURES I WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

YOU COULD EITHER E-MAIL THEM TO ME OR SEND THEM BY SNAIL MAIL.

I WILL SEE THAT YOU GET FULL CREDIT FOR THIS!

AND MY GRATEFUL APPRECIATION!

Your Opinion Thank you for your vote.
Circus Animals
Should animal acts be banned at circuses?No. There's nothing wrong with animal acts at circuses. This is a well regulated industry, and few of the animals are abused, despite what some animal rights groups may say. If animals were banned from circuses, there wouldn't be a point in going. (43%)
I don't think they should be banned, but there should be more regulations and oversight to make sure the animals are treated humanely. (30.3%)
Wild animals such as elephants and tigers should be banned. Acts using more domesticated animals like dogs and horses are OK. (6.8%)
Of course they should be banned! This is cruel, inhumane, unnatural, and mean. Animals shouldn't suffer for our enjoyment. (19.9%)

From: http://www.tristatehomepage.com/

Evansville, IN, where the Shrine Circus just finished it's run.

Looks like the do-gooders lose this one!

LITTLE HORSE, VALDOSTA, GA 1970'S

Remember the Little Horse Show from Greenville, SC Fair?

I promised you I'd show you the little horse.

Well here he is in Valdosta that same year.

I can't remember the guy's name that owned him.

He told Me that they kept him in a baby's playpen at the Motel!

DAILEY BROS CANADIAN TOUR 1984 (FROM BOB COX)

Dick.. here's Dailey Bros. 1984 in Canada....roughnecks driving stakes....the show in Alberta...Harry Lockers Bear act.

GIL GRAY CIRCUS-TEXAS STATE FAIR FROM BOB COX

Gil Gray Circus (free circus sponsored by Dr. Pepper & Frito-Lay) Dallas Fair '83.

AZTEC STADIUM, MEXICO FROM BOB COX

Aztec stadium....114,144 seats....the "wave" was started hereduring World Soccer playoffs in 1986.how would you like to work the seats here??

Sunday, November 30, 2008

BIG TOP COWBOYS--COL TIM McCOY

COL. TIM McCOY

During the 1935 through 1938 seasons, the last golden age for American circuses, McCoy went on the road with Ringling BrothersBarnum and Bailey and gave the children of the country a chance to see one of their heroes in the flesh. The tours were enormously successful, so much so that he was persuaded to put together his own Wild West show and take to the road. It was a disaster. To recoup his losses, he went back to Hollywood to do a series of Westerns with Buck Jones and Raymond Hatton for Monogram Pictures called The Rough Riders.
At the age of seventy-one McCoy joined the Tommy Scott Wild West Show, displaying his virtuosity with a gun and a bullwhip, and toured on the road into his eighties. Today he spends his time writing his autobiography (to be published in the late fall) with the help of his son Ronald in Nogales, Arizona, where the following interview took place during the last weekend m October, 1976.

No, and the horse didn’t like you. I never knew a horse that did like anybody. Don’t dare tell it to horse lovers, but a horse isn’t too bright. I had the funniest thing happen in the circus. I had a great big palomino stud—he stood seventeen hands high—the dumbest animal I ever knew. He’d ride you right off the side of a roof if you put him over there. So my cowboy would bring him up to me when I was getting ready to go on, and this particular day for my entrance I wore my buckskin jacket. It was made for me by Arapaho squaws, and was smoke-tanned. He smelled that smoked tan and he put his nose right against my chest, and some woman said, “Oh, he knows his master, doesn’t he? He loves his master.”
I said, Oh, oh, don’t forget that one. So what I would do, whenever there were people standing around back there when they brought the horse up, all I’d do is stretch out my arms and he’d come right straight up and put his nose against my chest to smell that smoke. He knows his master! He didn’t give a damn about me.
From an interview in October 1976, from American Heritage website

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I'm planning on making this a regular series of post on Cowboys

that appeared In Person with shows.

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