Christmas Ads in the Bandwagon

    It's not too late to take a Christmas ad in the next Bandwagon. Our deadline date will be December 15th. It's an opportunity to send holiday greetings to friends in the circus community, share something about yourself, pay tribute to one of our brethren, avoid the time and expense of Christmas cards, and show support for the Circus Historical Society. The Christmas issue is the year's largest and most costly, and advertising revenue helps defray costs. Ads are encouraged from individual members, as well as from circuses, museums, libraries, suppliers, and other circus-related organizations.


   A full page ad is $200; half page, $125; quarter page, $75. Ads can be created to specification if camera-ready copy is not available. Advertisements and payment should be mailed to CHS Secretary-Treasurer Bob Cline at 2707 Zoar Road, Cheraw, SC 29520 or emailed me at fivetiger@shtc.net

PETA loses Two More Court Cases

PETA Meets Two Judges, Loses Two Cases


One of the goals of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is to grant animals the same legal rights as people, but this foolish quest suffered double setbacks this week. PETA is no stranger to losing in the courtroom—like its frivolous case claiming that Sea World’s performing whales were slaves or a not-at-all-frivolous case involving a breach of confidentiality that a jury found cost a police officer his job—but it added two new defeats to its list, one in California and one in Kansas.



In California, a judge ruled against PETA’s lawsuit attacking California’s “Happy Cows Come from California” dairy marketing campaign. The judge found that “experience and knowledge substantiate that dairy farmers … adhere to some of the highest animal welfare standards in the U.S.” PETA’s record on animal welfare is killing over 90 percent of the pets in the group’s care in each of the past six years, so it’s understandable that the group might not recognize high welfare standards. (After all, animal welfare, a science, is not at all like animal rights ideology.)



In a U.S. District Court in Kansas, a judge found that PETA cannot force Kansas State Fair organizers to let the group publicly display a profane and graphic anti-meat propaganda video. PETA won’t be denied a booth, but people who want to see the video will have to seek it out. Even so, an anti-agriculture group will still have more access to an agriculture fair than any pro-agriculture group would probably have at an animal rights event.



PETA’s “press sluts” tactics might get it in the news, but thus far the group has little to show for it. And now courts are joining pop idols like Lady Gaga in telling PETA to get lost.

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/2012/09/peta-meets-two-judges-loses-two-cases/?fb_action_ids=10151216891472812&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=246965925417366
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Ringling Pre-Sale

Pre-Christmas Special

I am offering you a great opportunity to find a Christmas present that won't be found anywhere else for the circus enthusiast in your family. I have been digitizing Photo albums that have been collected for nearly 60 years. This Christmas Special offer is for Seven different CDs that cover the Great Wallace Shows and mostly the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus with a little bit of the John Robinson's 10 Big Shows tossed in with over 1700 images for your historical and model building pleasures.

There are photos from numeroues collections such as P.M. McClintock, Richard Conover, Chappie Fox, Pete Mardo, Joe Heiser, Jr. Scaperlanda Bros., Russ Warren, Walker Morris, the Melvin collection, Hugh McGill, Gordon Borders, Tom Duncan and others. Some are duplicated from a small photo to an enlargement, a few are billing stands and a few are posters. You certainly won't be disappointed.

The Special will only cost $125.00 plus shipping. That works out to a little over 7 cents an image. You can enlarge these, use Adobe Photoshop programs to crop, colorize, contrast, etc. print any of them at home or at a photo Lab and see details you won't see in a magazine. Go to my website at www.thecircusworld.com

For every set purchased, I'll donate 35% to the Circus Historical Society, Inc. to help preserve the publication of the greatest Circus Historical Journal in America, the Bandwagon.

Have a great time. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at tigeract@thecircusworld.com

Bandwagon Special Offer

     The Circus Historical Society will be offering a huge special on some past editions of the Bandwagon. Each and every special will only be good for two months. This is the Last three weeks for this great speacial offer. We are making the third offering for the entire six issues of 1992. These issues are covered in detail on our website under the Bandwagon Magazine tab, indexes of Bandwagon Articles, then to 1957 to 1999.


     These issues are filled with great circus history as authored by Bill Johnston, Joseph Bradbury, Gordon Carver, Orin C. King, John Polacsek, Fred D. Pfening III, Mark St. Leon, Stuart Thayer, Chang Reynolds and more.

     Maybe you haven’t been in the CHS for 20 years and would love to read a lot more about the circus or maybe you’re looking for that perfect gift already, but you can’t pass up a deal like this.

$25.00

...Includes the shipping in the US!

     Make your check payable to the C.H.S. and mail it to: Bandwagon Special - 1992, 1075 W. Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43212 or you can use PayPal on our website at www.circushistory.org 

RBBB - Gold Unit

Coming off of their two year tour on the Red Unit, the smaller version will now be the Gold Unit opening on Christmas Day in West Palm Beach, FL. and making a South Carolina appearance at the Florence Civic Center February 14 through the 17th, 2013.

A call for Papers

CALL FOR CIRCUS PAPERS

The 43rd Annual Convention of The Popular Culture Association & The American Culture Association

will take place

March 27-30, 2013

Washington, D.C.

This will be the seventeenth meeting of the Popular Culture Association Circuses and Circus Culture interest group. We invite papers that explore the past and present of circus as performance art, historical analysis, and a unique form of popular culture. Circus, a continuously evolving tradition of live entertainment, lends itself to scholarship from many perspectives.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Menageries, Sideshows, Aerialists, Historic Relevance, Worlds Fair Exhibitions, Logistics of Circus Transportation, Clowning, Circus and Sideshow Documentary Screenings, Performance Art, P.T. Barnum and Other Promoters, Gaffs, Pitch Cards and so much more!

Our panels have been diverse and fascinating. We invite you to join us. Send a fifty word abstract of your paper by November 30, 2012 to: http://ncp.pcaaca.org and feel free to contact me at:

Stacey L. Mascia

Humanities Department

North Country Community College

75 William Street

Malone, NY 12953

Phone: (518) 483-4550 ext. 3250

Email: smascia@nccc.edu

Note: Only one paper may be submitted to the Conference.

Chalk Festival

This came from Mia Cristiani-Alvis by way of Laura Sedlmayr today. - Today at the Chalk Festival - a nice tribute to our family - all the Zacchinis that contributed to their fame - Bruno, Teo, Mario, Edmundo, Victor, Mario, Emanuel Sr., Emanuel Jr (Lali) Sylvana (ChaCha), Egle, Duina, Germana, Olympia, Madeline - all wonderful performers and I am so proud to be part if their lineage - I hope I didn't forget anyone.

Bard Graduate Center in NY

Image: “Ringling Bros-Barnum & Bailey / Europe’s Latest Sensation The Wallendas” ca. 1928. Color lithograph poster Erie Lithograph & Printing Company, Erie, Penn. 42 × 28 in. (106.7 × 71.2 cm) Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont, Gift of Harry T. Peters Sr. Family, 1959, 1959-67.194

On View in the Gallery

Circus and the City: New York, 1793–2010

Lecture: The Circus In America

Thursday, November 1 @ 6pm

BGC, 38 West 86th Street

At the turn of the 19th century there were more than 3,000 circuses traveling around the United States. The development of the tent and use of the railroads, the introduction and refinement of advertising, the circus parades, the use of elephants as attractions, and the side show are some of the themes that contributed to the distinctive American quality of the circus. Susan Weber will explore how the European circus was transformed in America into an immense multimedia phenomenon that was eventually billed as the “The Greatest Show On Earth.”

Susan Weber is founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center.

$20 general

$15 seniors and students

Register online, e-mail programs@bgc.bard.edu, or call 212-501-3011.

Bandwagon

The Latest edition of the Circus Historical Society's periodical the Bandwagon was mailed on Wednesday October 24th. Members should start receiving it next week. For those that aren't members and are steadily missing out on the great history of the circus, get on the Bandwagon as they say and join us on our website at www.circushistory.org

Ivan Henry's Surgery

I received a terrific phone call from Ivan yesterday telling me he had already had his double lung transplant and was in the process of getting on with the rehabilitation work. Big Thumbs up. He said he felt like a new man again.

Feel free to post some good wishes to him on his fine circus blog at http://www.thecircusblog.com/

PS: I spoke with Ivan yesterday. He has had all the IVs taken out, is feeling fine and coming home today. ( 10/25/2012 )

Pray ( Hard ) before you Vote!

You should be able to double click this to enlarge it enough to read Rev. Billy Graham's message.

Photo Albums for your Computer

I've been converting many of the photo albums in my possession to computer CDs for a modern way of sharing circus history via photographic images with others at an incredibly reasonable price. With people on eBay trying to sell one photo for $10.00 to 13.00 each, I am offering the computer CDs at an average cost of 10 cents a photo. You can then take the CD to a Film center near you and get copies made for about 30 cents or print them at home or just enjoy going through the CD over and over again.

While I do offer these on eBay, I sell many of them through my website at www.thecircusworld.com

Happy Birthday Herr Bloggermeister

From our Octoberfest to yours, Happy Birthday wishes go out to Big Jim Peterson, owner of the Mighty Peterson Shows and controller of the Million Dollar Blog. Hope you have a grand time my friend!

Necessities

Here are the two Ringling / Barnum units as seen on the train in 1952. I wonder where the dumping stations were back then?

Necessities

This is 1988. This is a Hal Guyon photo taken in Rock Hill, SC.

Necessities

The 1973 and 1974 version on Circus Kirk was a small streamlined version that was pulled by a station wagon.

Necessities

Circus Kirk had changed the unit a couple times over the years. By 1975, ye old toilet had been positioned into an old Bread truck for ease in getting to a dumping station. ( This is a Fred Curchoe photo as found on the Circus Kirk Facebook page )

Necessities

This was a former Ringling / Barnum unit that went to Royal American Shows and eventually came to the Circus World Museum. It was used on the Milwaukee Parade grounds a couple times in the early 1970s.

Necessities

This is Circus Krone's facilities complete with attendant. This was taken by Bruce Hawley this summer.