YESTERDAY'S TOWNS

HOWDY, MY NAME IS BILL STRONG, I'LL BE YOUR "24 HOUR MAN", ROUTING YOU INTO THE PAST TO SEE WHAT THE CIRCUS WAS IN DAYS GONE BY. IF YOU'RE LIKE ME, AND MISS WHAT IT USED TO BE, THEN COME ON ALONG AS WE GO DOWN THE ROAD FOLLOWING THE ARROWS BACKWARDS, TO "YESTERDAY'S TOWNS"! IF YOU HAVE CIRCUS RELATED PICTURES YOU WOULD LIKE POSTED, SEND THEM TO,,,,yesterday1@verizon.net,,,,AND WE WILL TRY TO FIT THEM IN. "24 HOUR MAN" WILL HAVE THE FINAL DECISION ON POSTING.

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Three years at CWM made me a real traditionalist, and I keep remembering Bob Parkinson saying, "I want the people to see what the circus used to be, not what it is today. That's what this site is about!

Thursday, October 26, 2006

SNAPSHOTS: HIND LEG HORSES # 1, FREE & IN HAND






The first set of photos are all single horses, either at Liberty, or in hand(on leads). First is Tony Smaha Sr. & a young Gaylord Maynard, dates unknown; next is Christel Sembach Krone, on Circus Krone, 1960's, & Mark Oliver Goebel, On Ringling Bros., 1997; then we have Trudy Strong on Eddie Zacchini's Olympic Circus at the Tampa Fair, 1984, & Staci Anderson Diaz, on her own show, 2005; Linda Herrmann, winning the Gold at the Sarasota Circus Festival, doing a Hind Leg Rear with an Arabian Stallion, & The Lavade with a Lippizan Stallion; and finally Dennie Pinson, with Tomah, a Morgan Stallion, & Joanne Wilson Pinson,with Lucky, a Lusitaner Stallion.

posted by 24-HOUR-MAN | 7:16 PM

1 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is the quote attributed to Ernestine Clarke Baer on her funeral program.

"God forbid I should go to a heaven where there are no horses."

10/27/2006 5:03 PM  

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