Flamingo ……Remember When

| August 16, 2009

The back of the menu.

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The Flamingo Hotel

| August 16, 2009

This is what the hotel looked like in the old days 1945. Photo was taken by my mother with a Kodak box camera, I know……….. she still has it.

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The Pioneer

| August 16, 2009

Las Vegas, Neveda, December 1949

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The Eldorado Club

| August 16, 2009

Las Vegas, Nevada, December 1949 

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Mable Stark and Chubby Guilfoyle

| August 12, 2009

This is a photo taken from a newspaper. It was mainly about Mable Stark and The World Jungle Compound. The man in this photo is Chubby Guilfoyle, one of the finest big cat trainers ever known. He not only broke cats he taught the men who aspired to be cat trainers one being Pat Anthony.  In the spring of 1950 Chubby […]

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Ringling’s Little Tops

| August 12, 2009

                 HIS…………………………….AND……………………………HERS

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Ringling Main Entrance

| August 12, 2009

Ringling Bros 1949. Photo by Mary Henry.

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Ringling Ticket Wagon

| August 12, 2009

                                      My mother took this shot in 1949….where I don’t know, but I do remember my Mom and Dad visiting some friends that were on the show.

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Siebrand Bros Circus

| August 12, 2009

North Platte, Nebraska in the earlyor late 1949 or 1950’s. I am hoping Buckles Woodcock will give me some information about this photo. Up date 8/23/09  This photo is the Miller elephants Siebrand Bros Circus. Up date 8/ 27/09 from Judy Jacobs these are the parents of Buckles Woodcock, Babe and W.H.Woodcock.

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Elephants, the Backbone of the Circus by Col. W.H. Woodcock

| August 10, 2009

Fred Logan rehearsing one of the young bulls on the Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros Circus.

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