tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16746582.post7420847802341558330..comments2023-12-17T00:24:31.209-05:00Comments on Sawdust and Spangles: United States TableauBob Clinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06322660031390871141noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16746582.post-51175618624768952692012-02-02T19:31:56.329-05:002012-02-02T19:31:56.329-05:00Bob:
Just to fill in some gaps for newcomers: Fr...Bob:<br /><br />Just to fill in some gaps for newcomers: Frank P Spellman bought a number of sets of wagon sides (apparently fifteen, though sixteen had been ordered) from Bode for his 1919 U S Motorized Circus. The one which was ordered but never built may have been a Globe. The wagons were mounted on Kelly-Springfield trucks, which unfortunatelky had not been paid for. <br /><br />When the show failed after just a few days, Kelly-Springfield took the trucks back and sold the sides to Bob Schiller of Marion, Ohio. He advertised them for sale sold five to Frank West: Asia, India, Japan, Mexico and Russia. <br /><br />Schiller sold eight to Fred Buchanan in 1925 for his Robbins Bros Circus, mounting them on wagons for Fred as part of the deal. These eight were: Africa, Belgium, France, Great Britain, United States (all of which later went to Adkins and Terrell for their operations), China, Panama and South America (all of which rotted at Granger, having been sent back there in mid-1930, although a legend persists that China may have been dismantled as decorations for a restaurant. (See "Gus the Great" for a description of the China wagon in Granger).<br /><br />Of the Adkins-Terrell five, all appeared on their 1938 Robbins show and on the Cole show for one or two years, but all except France burned in the fire at Rochester early in 1940.<br /><br />Only France survives today and can be seen at the Circus World Museum.Ole Whiteyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11764280654291782809noreply@blogger.com