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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts 
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dave_matkin Inner circle 4522 Posts
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Cool!!!!
Like the merigoround. Found out a couple of years ago that my dad did his apprenteship a Orton and Spooner in Burton On Trent . http://fairground-heritage.org.uk/learni......spooner/ Funny how you don't realise your parents are cool (well have a cool background) until you are well past your teens! |
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts
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"Orton and Spooner" ... I'm glad I followed your link, I was vainly trying to figure out the meaning thinking that it was Cockney rhyming slang. "The Bobbies nabbed 'im right in the middle of lunch; 'e was always goin' for a nice bucket of Kentucky Fried Orton-and-spooner 'e was."
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dave_matkin Inner circle 4522 Posts
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It should have read at rather than a ..... Not sure if that would have made it clearer. Unless you have heard of them you're not likely to know of them.
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george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts
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Very nostalgic potos, more please.
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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2477 Posts
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Actually, Dave Matkin, the page you linked to made me think (a few months back) that Orton and Spooner had made the mysterious Norman's Ghost showfront that I asked about HERE
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts
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[quote]On 2013-05-25 16:29, rossmacrae wrote:
Actually, Dave Matkin, the page you linked to made me think (a few months back) that Orton and Spooner had made the mysterious Norman's Ghost showfront that I asked about HERE [/quote Could be. http://www.sideshowworld.com/81-SSPAlbum......ost.html
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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Michael Baker Eternal Order Near a river in the Midwest 11172 Posts
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I REALLY want that Scardy Cat facade. I swear I'd screw it to the front of my house! Ha!!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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Quote:
The late Ralph Fountain had a truck with a (hand operated) "MGR" on it. The operator had to turn it by hand! If they didn't want to book his magic show, he would sell the client his MGR. Ralph's wife would operate it!
SNEAKY, UNDERHANDED, DEVIOUS,& SURREPTITIOUS ITINERANT MOUNTEBANK
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Jim Hand Regular user Ocala,Fl. 137 Posts
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We did quite well " giving" a magic show away.....If the festival didn't have any money available they were quite willing to let us set up our cotton candy stand in exchange for the FREE show.....Have a friend still doing this with his puppet show....must still work , he's been doing it for 12 years...
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts
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Quote: It'od look good on one of Paul Osborne's little portable stage sets.
On 2013-06-02 23:06, Michael Baker wrote: .
One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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ringmaster Inner circle Memphis, Down in Dixie 1974 Posts
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One of the last living 10-in-one performers. I wanted to be in show business the worst way, and that was it.
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Harley Newman Inner circle 5117 Posts
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I had a pseudo-medieval Hell's Mouth stage once, at a Renn Fair. It was wonderful!
“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus” -Mark Twain
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