This was the old RBBB Office wagon # 124. It was discarded by RBBB and found in Goodman's Junkyard in Sarasota in 1962 when CHS member William Elbirn documented the where abouts of the remaining RBBB wagons in the Bandwagon's May / June 1962 issue as found on pages 18-19. His article states this wagon was 16' long and was striped like the rest of the ticket wagons. It had a 1956 Florida License plate on the back marked RB-98.
Also the Prop wagon #61 that was already posted below was at Goodman's Junkyard in 1962. It was listed as 19' long. It had a 1956 Florida License Plate marked RB-61.
Did Circus World get this out of the Junkyard? It remained at Circus World through 1985 when it was part of the collection that was sold at the Guernsey Auction. I've been told that this wagon now is privately owned but I don't know by whom or where it is located.
2 comments:
This just in from Dom Yodice:
Hi Bob,
Just for the record, Ticket office 124 was not 16' but rather 18'-1'. It was never painted with the red, white & blue stripes as were the other ticket wagons in 1956.
In 1956 it was a solid color, probably the same green that it was in 1955.
The prop wagon # 61 was also 18'-1" and not the 19' as Bill Elbrin says. These are all from my own personal measurements I took at Circus World.
The license plate numbers add to the confusion. Joe Bradbury said that when the wagons were in the graveyard, they often would put any plate on the wagon so that they could move it from place to place.
Regards,
Dom
Another one from Dom Yodice:
Hi Bob,
I reread the article you told me about from Bill Elbrin.
I think the 124 ticket office he was talking about with the red, white & blue stripes was actually the three sided ticket wagon. In 1956 it was numbered 124. The large office wagon was numbered 104 (yes it was green as per the Bagget notes).
The old traditional 104 commissary was number 14 in 1956.
Mystery solved.
Dom
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