The following Pictures were taken in 1967.
This was the final season, which closed early, of the show.
The owner Henry Vonderheid passed away on opening day.
Henry visited my brother the winter before the show opened and was
really proud of this edition. It's a shame he didn't live to see the show up and moving.
Henry also owned a Wild Animal Farm just out side Dallas, PA, It was called the Red Rock Wild Animal Farm and was quite a tourist attraction there for many years. He had owned the show for many years. And purchased a lot of equipment, including part of the Hunt Bros Elephant Herd, from Harry Hunt. Most of the semis that are painted with pictorials were from that show.
Especially the snub nosed Chevies.
I hope you enjoy these pictures they are from my brothers collection but I don't know who snapped them.
I also have have some Von Bros pictures from the fifties which I will post later.
Here's another "Mud Show" from Brother Bill's Collection.
Please feel free to identify the folks in these pictures if you recognize them.
I beleive this show was owned by a gentleman known as "Hard Times" Leonard.
It's a shame that this is a part of our country's history that is all but gone!
This show was named after a very popular country comedian.
Soft Ice Cream Trailer
This show is touring now. It's season started out in Oklahoma and went as far south as Florida and up the East Coast in to the Northeast and accross the Mid-West and soom will be in Washington State and then down through the West Coast then across the Southwest back to it's winter Home in Hugo, OK!
