Mabel Stark and Eddie ?
Posted By thecircusblog on July 3, 2009
Here is an interesting photo of Mabel Stark and a gentleman which could be Eddie Trees. I do know she married Eddie later in life. I am hoping that someone will make a comment on this photo. This photo had to be taken in the late 1920’s or the early 1930’s.
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PeeWee say’s he does not know this mans name but he is most sure it’s not Eddie
PeeWee is right. It isn’t Edwin Blair (Eddie) Trees. I have a great shot of Eddie Trees wearing a captains cap with the logo “Mabel Stark Tigers”. If I could get this all-in-one to scan, I’ll post it for Ivan. Eddie Trees died March 4, 1954, in Tokyo, not long after he and Mabel arrived for their projected 4-year tour of Japan. Mabel later said they had been married 10 years, putting their wedding circa 1944. Few may know that during the war years, Mabel relinquished her tiger act to work for the war effort as a Rosie The Riveter at Lockheed, in Burbank, California, from 1942 to 1946.. Eddie had been her tiger man and he went to work there with her. Having been a nurse in her first career, Mabel was First Aid Captain for her section of the plant. Her tigers had been boarded with C.R. Montgomery. After closing with Lockheed, among her first bookings was with Jimmy Woods” Yankee Patterson Circus, later in 1946.
As for the man in this shot, I have Mabel’s personal photo albums, and this man resembles Mabel’s fifth husband, Art Rooney, who succeeded Mr. Agonosticus, James Williams III, Louis Roth, and the embezzling Ringling bookkeeper, Al Ewing. Eddie was husband number 6.
Those are my Great grand parents.
Its Eddie Salem
Mr. Clark–Can you tell us further history on Eddie Salem? It’s a name some of us have not seen before. This man is pictured with Mabel Stark. She had no children, but may have inherited a family by marriage–although she never mentioned them to me. Kindly help us with additional details.