Thursday, March 31, 2011

From Wade Burck


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FYI----Hot Springs, Arkansas, circa 1908. "Army and Navy General Hospital." Closer to the camera on Reserve Avenue we have the Imperial Bath House.

"Thanks Wade, I was raised in Hot Springs and find this photo very interesting but a bit perplexing.
I recall the Bath Houses as being close together in a row right down town on Central Avenue which is level as a pool table.
I used to know all the names but off hand I can only recall the Imperial, the Fordyce, the Quapaw and the Superior.
The manager of one was Mr. Louis Woodcock probably a relative but I never met him.

Further up on Central was the Majestic Hotel where the Chicago gangsters came for the baths and the Arlington Race Track.
There was a long standing agreement of non violence among rival factions while they were in town.
Buckles

I had an enterprising classmate that would make book during racing season. He did OK.

From Steve Flint


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Dear Buckles-

This is a photo I found of the little shell bandwagon in yesterday blog after it was built into an air cally. It is labeled Cole Bros. 1916. Another Jones title.

Flint

From Robert Perry #1


Buckles, 5 year old Bogart Bronson with Arna The Elephant

From Robert Perry #2


Jasen Brown with bubbles the monkey
& 2 photos Mark Anthony gave me back in the 50s with Wirth,s

From Robert Perry #3

From Robert Perry #4

From Alan Roocroft


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New main entrance of Hagenbeck's Tierpark, Hamburg.

From Buckles


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You may recall my recent saga of "Anna May" being chased by the giraffe on Universoul.
I finally found the picture, taken in Philadelphia by Rob Houston.

I don't see why Margo didn't simply grab the leash and show him who was boss.

@$#%?:^*??_


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Grandpa jumps up and down and says bad things when the computer doesn't work!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

1967 Dennis the Menace (Front Cover)


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1967 Dennis the Menace #2


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1967 Dennis the Menace #3


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1967 Dennis the Menace #4


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1967 Dennis the Menace #7


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1967 Dennis the Menace #8


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1967 Dennis the Menace #9


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1967 Dennis the Menace #10


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1967 Dennis the Menace #11


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1967 Dennis the Menace (Back Cover)


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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

To Paul Gutheil


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Clown Bands #1


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Clown Bands #2


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Clown Bands #3


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Clown Bands #4


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This looks like a Police Line Up.
Forerunners of today's Rock Groups.

Clown Bands #5


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Clown Bands #6


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Clown Bands #7


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Clown Bands #8


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Clown Bands #9


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Clown Bands #10

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I've run this picture before and it remains an enigma. Obviously a parody of the famous Ringling Mounted Band but at a much later date, probably staged. I can't imagine carrying a dozen mules for a clown gag unless they did a libety drill and were on hand.

Monday, March 28, 2011

Green Hornet #1 (From Eric Beheim)


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The Green Hornet TV series premiered on September 9, 1966. (For those of you too young to remember the original Green Hornet radio show, it was first heard back in the 1930s. It was produced by station WXYZ in Detroit, which also produced The Lone Ranger and Sgt. Preston of the Yukon radio shows. (In the radio version, Britt Reid, the Green Hornet’s alter ego, was identified as the son of the Lone Ranger’s nephew Dan Reid.) The TV series was produced by William Dozier, who had also produced the wildly popular Batman TV series starring Adam West. While Batman featured bizarre criminals and improbable crimes, The Green Hornet took a somewhat more realistic approach. The first episode to be filmed (but the third to be broadcast) was “Programmed for Death,” which established the basic pattern for the episodes that followed. It is of particular interest because a leopard figures prominently in the action. (If you have more information on the trained leopard used for the filming, or if you actually participated in the filming as one of the leopard’s trainers, your comments will be greatly appreciated by the rest of us.)

Green Hornet #2


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The story opens late at night in the newsroom of THE DAILY SENTINEL, the newspaper owned by Britt Reid. As reporter Pat Allen (Don Eitner) works on an important story that he has been investigating for the Sentinel, the elevator indicator lights show an ascending elevator stopping at the newsroom floor.

Green Hornet #3


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The elevator door opens to reveal an unexpected visitor that is clearly there on some sinister errand. [During the filming of BRINGING UP BABY, scenes with the leopard were filmed on sets that were enclosed inside a huge cage. One wonders if such elaborate precautions were taken for the filming of a lowly TV episode.]

Green Hornet #4


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Making its way through the deserted newsroom, the leopard heads straight for the reporter’s desk.

Green Hornet #5


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Looking up from his work, Allen begins to comprehend his peril.

Green Hornet #6


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As the leopard makes a leap for him, Allen springs backwards, crashing through a window.

Green Hornet #7


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Looking out from the smashed window, the leopard scans the street far below to learn what has become of its intended victim. The scene then fades out before showing how the leopard is able to make good its escape from the newsroom.

Green Hornet #8


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Britt Reid (Van Williams) and Kato (Bruce Lee) eventually learn that Allen had been about to expose a gang of jewel thieves that is dealing in synthetic diamonds. Locating the gang’s palatial headquarters on a large estate, they show up in disguise to investigate. [Since this was the first episode to be produced, the masks worn by the Hornet and Kato are different from the ones they wore in later episodes.]

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Aware that the Green Hornet is prowling around outside, the gang’s leader releases the leopard to hunt him down and do away with him.

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Instead of the Hornet, the leopard attacks Mike Axford, another DAILY SENTINEL reporter who has somehow blundered into the case. Arriving in the nick of time, the Hornet gives the leopard a blast of non-lethal gas from his trademark gas gun (another hold-over from the radio show.)

Green Hornet #11

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The gas does its work and the leopard goes down for the count. When the gang’s members show up to find out what all the commotion is about, Kato quickly subdues them with a few deft karate moves.

Green Hornet #12


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Later, Axford (who apparently survived the leopard attack with nary a scratch) is given credit for rounding up the gang, even though he is not quite sure of what transpired after the leopard pounced upon him.

Despite good rating during its first few weeks, “The Green Hornet” was cancelled after only 26 episodes. In terms of fan mail, Bruce Lee’s Kato proved to be the series’ most popular character. (When several of the episodes were later edited together and released as a feature film, Lee received top billing.) Fans also expressed admiration for the Hornet’s car, a modified 1966 Chrysler Crown Imperial four-door. Bootleg copies of all 26 episodes of the TV series can be purchased on-line. The Green Hornet strikes again!

Sunday, March 27, 2011

From John Goodall


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Here is a picture of the Five Graces bandwagon

The "Five Graces" bandwagon at the Museum of the American Circus in Sarasota, Fla.

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art

The Mystic World Of Circus Parades!


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Windjammers #1


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Windjammers #2


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Windjammers #3


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Windjammers #4


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