Saturday, February 12, 2011

Billing Stands


Here's a little journey through time of some classic circus advertising. This one is from 1905.

2 comments:

  1. Whitey11:21 PM

    Lots of paper here. They wouldn't carry the scaffold unless this was a usual thing.

    Shame that by September they still hadn't gotten far enough ahead to have correctly dated paper.

    Will Exhibit Here.

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  2. Anonymous12:11 PM

    I wonder how many of those big date sheets the ad car carried?

    They might have carried the parapet hooks and ropes in a possum, obtained the plank locally.

    More hair raising was taking an extension ladder, placing one piece on the roof with a guy on the end away from the wall as a counter-weight, with a second guy working on the other half of the ladder, supported by the wall end of the horizontal section. No OSHA then.

    Great hit.

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