Same Design - Different Poster # 4

This design was used on their program covers as well as the poster.

The Conover Collection

You've heard about and you may have seen some of it before!

The Richard and Albert Conover Photographic Collection!

The Circus Historical Society, Inc. has been given the Richard and Albert Conover collection to preserve digitally, and to share with the world again. Al Conover had a sales list with over 100 pages offering sets of photos from the Conovers, Dyer Reynolds, Wm. Koford, Marion Organ, Col. Sturdevent, Harry Simpson, Kenneth Whipple, George Graf, George Hubler, Robert Danner and others.

I'll be offering many of these sets for sale again as photographic prints. They haven't been available to the Public in nearly 20 years. You can fine them on my website at www.thecircusworld.com I can offer you the best price there. I have them starting to list on eBay but the price will be higher to offset the eBay fees. I'll also be placing ads in the Circus magazines in the very near future.

EVERY set that is sold is equally split between the Conover family and the Circus Historical Society. I won't keep a cent of these sales.

I'll be steadily adding sets on my website so check back often.

We're Back online!

I have no idea what all happened last night but the server is working again and my website is on-line again.

I'm glad I'm not in "Those" meetings today! Whew!

Untimely complications

Well, today has became a nightmare from I don't know where. It seems that my website host, Bluehost, has crashed. MY website and gosh knows how many others are all off line right now. We can't even get to the BlueHost Login page right now. I think I'll just go to bed!

Jungleland semi

I recently found this old photograph of the Semi used for the Jungleland owned elephant act. Nice artwork!

CHS Newsletter

As Editor of the CHS Newsletter, I have thoroughly enjoyed putting it together over the years. Many times, I have found myself wondering what else to use to complete the issue. This time I'm in the opposite position of trying to sort out what NOT to use. I could have produced an eight page Newsletter this issue.

This issue will be coming out the first week of February to all of the Circus Historical Society members. Anyone that is NOT a member, should go to the CHS website immediately ( www.circushistory.org ) and join ASAP as another Bandwagon issue will be coming out soon as well.

WAIT!

There's a BIG, did I say BIG announcement coming in th February Newsletter. You won't want to miss it. The CHS members will soon know what it is.

Yeah!

Apparently, I have been taken off of blogger time-out as this post allowed a photo to be uploaded. Noting the hard work between my electrical genuises, fellow snow shovelers and the smattering of friendly advice has no doubt had some effect on this tempermental device. Now it's time to go to bed. Good Night!

Rats!

Dear Friends,
      It appears that I have now ran aground in the Blogging Dept. I now have my regular computer back but still cannot upload any photos. Sound familiar????? Jim Peterson, you know anything about this stuff?

Not amused!
Bob

Trouble

    I don't know how fast my computer will go when it gets out of the shop but apparently it is going to have a New Paint Job, a modified hemi with overhead Cams, a Holley Carburetor, a New Stick shift Transmission and a Nitro button for those excellent take-off performances. I hope it gets back from the garage tomorrow as I still can't post any pictures on here with my laptop.

 Geez!

New Year!

     Since my tower computer is in the shop for a general overhaul, oil change, lube job, tire rotation and balance and various upgrades, my laptop doesn't want me to upload any pictures on the blog. Rats!

Bob

Happy New Year!

Here's wishing the many great friends I've met over the years all the best for a safe and prosporous New Year. As our good friend, Jim Peterson expresses: "See ya, down the road!"

Merry Christmas

Taschen Book

This is the 2012 English language reprint version. I have 5 copies available for sale on my website for $45.00 each. www.thecircusworld.com There are 386 pages in it with amazing full color photos never seen before.

1993 Bandwagon Special

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. The 1992 special has now ended.


We are making the fourth offering for the entire six issues of 1993. 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 lots 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 – 1993, 1075 W. Fifth Ave., Columbus, Ohio 43212 or you can use PayPal on our website at www.circushistory.org

CHS on Facebook

Go to the CHS Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/CircusHistoricalSociety?v=wall and LIKE us.

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