I have a batch of slides with somewhat scarce views from the old Golden Horseshoe Revue. Cool! You'll see half of them today, and the other half in THE FUTURE. What about the third half? I'll never tell.
Oh boy, scantily-clad dancers, 1890's style. I love a good can-can performance! This slide was partially damaged, which explains the cropping.
Here's Wally Boag, making a balloon animal for a little girl. Wally had been sent to Walt Disney World to perform at the Diamond Horseshoe Revue in 1971, but had returned to Disneyland by 1976.
The young girl is the daughter of our photographer, so that must have made things extra fun! I hope she had her balloon animal bronzed - it could still be on her mantle, gleaming under a spotlight.
Major-
ReplyDeleteWe miss you, Wally-! (And the real Golden Horseshoe, too).
Thanks, Major.
Wow, nice clear photos of the Revue; rare indeed! We've seen a few others, but not with this clarity.
ReplyDeleteSomewhere there are some ostriches that are shivering because their feathers have been used for boas. Which feathers are collected for the boas? Tail feathers? Wing feathers? Maybe they're not ostrich feathers at all! Maybe they're made of yak hair.
Wally's balloon animal is, of course, a llama. Yes, I still have my llama obsession from the other day. Maybe I should try Major's suggested cure and have a llama spit on me.
I shall await the 2nd and 3rd halves of your Golden Horseshoe Revue scans, Major. Thanks. (Maybe the boas are made of llama wool?)
These are some nice indoor shots! I was going to say "I wonder if that little girl has kept her balloon animal all these years"....but I guess she really could have if she took your suggestion and had it bronzed. But then on the other hand, I'm guessing the bronzing process involves heat, so maybe that would not have worked. She could have had a plaster mold made from it, and then she could cast copies from that mold. I bet today, you could get big bucks for a ceramic version of one of Wally's balloon animals, if it was made using that process.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Major! And happy 7,001st blog post! :-)
I am everlastingly grateful that I saw Wally Boag in the real Golden Horsehoe for just one show. Back then, I had no idea of the back stories of either the man or the venue. I was very lucky.
ReplyDeleteGreat pics, just as I remember it.
I guess if she couldn’t keep the balloon animal forever, maybe a French fry or two, or one of the chicken tenders might do as a souvenir.
Thanks Major!
JG
Nanook, I truly regret having never seen Wally Boat and Co. in the original Golden Horseshoe Revue.
ReplyDeleteJB, I always assumed that ostriches lost their tail feathers, or they could be removed with no harm done to the ostrich, but maybe I’m delusional. And boy will you be embarrassed when you find out that the balloon animal is an alpaca!
TokyoMagic!, I have no idea if “bronzing” means actually having something cast in bronze, or if the thing is just painted with bronze-colored paint. I could look it up, but I don’t have time to drive to the liberry! Either way, if the process costs less than $10,000, it is worth doing.
JG, yes, you WERE lucky! You know, we can all laugh at chicken tenders, but I love a good chicken tender. With a variety of dipping sauces. Not like in Russia, where they only have beet-flavored dipping sauce.
It's interesting to me these days that I never saw the Revue, either as a guest or CM. But I still was lucky by interacting with the players backstage. They were just CMs to me. And those girls look familiar. Of course Wally too. KS
ReplyDeleteKS, wow, I'm surprised that you never saw the Revue, but maybe it's like New Yorkers not visiting the Statue of Liberty. It was just "there", and would presumably *always* be there.
ReplyDeleteI remember seeing the show live with Wally Boag, long after seeing it on World of Color. The preshow slides include vintage illustrations with gag captions and plugs for Pepsi, then still the sponsor. The tenor (assume it was still Fulton Burley) sang "The Girl on the Police Gazette" by Irving Berlin (1937, a light parody of Berlin's own turn-of-the-century style). It ended with the cancan girls emerging from a magazine cover and striking elegant poses. Then Wally Boag, who I somehow remember as having facial hair . He wasn't as athletic as on the old World of Color episode (no high kicks or pratfalls), but all his physical moves were smooth as magic tricks. And all the jokes still played.
ReplyDeleteIt dawns on me Fulton Burley didn't appear in the World of Color show at all, which is kind of sad.