We took about four and a half days to reach Washington D. C. and we arrived there on a Tuesday in mid-morning. We decided to do some of the touristing before we started our work and the first place visited was the
National Gallery of Art. Actual acres of paintings, sculptures and jewels of many kinds. Later, that day We signed the D.C. part of the National Parks Police and made an appointment with the Silver Spring , Maryland Police Department for the next day. Another sale there and yet another one in Alexandria, Virginia.
Baltimore and Glen Burnie both said "no".
l had always had good visits, and fun times in New York. l expected it to be good to us, for the Circus. Altogether, we pitched the circus in New York eight times, over two weeks and closed only one, the little town of Freeport on Long Island.
l was beginning to wonder just how great a salesman l am (or not) The boss provided plenty of back-up. And moved us through Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missouri with some successes.
As we moved North, into the upper parts of the Mid-West, we signed some good
towns like Little Rock, Memphis, S pringfield, Kansas City,De Moines Minneapolis and St.Paul
and Duluth. l met with a Sherriff who had brought a couple of his sons who kept company with my daughters while he and l discussed how his organization
would make thousands of dollars by sponsoring our one-day event. My girls came away from their meeting with another kind of success, an ounce of cannabis, as good as we had had, since California, and priced lower than what we had paid for something comparable. We traveled in a truck that had been fitted with a small trailer. lt was very well constructed, both the truck, which got 17 miles to a gallon of gas; and the trailer,which was tightly insulated and fitted
with 8" foam rubber mattresses.
After a few months of calling on circus prospects, George called me one day and asked if my girls and l would like to travel with the circus. We would all have our own jobs;Paula would be the Side Show greeter;Sandy would be the Bounce
and Big Top cashiers. l would be Side-show barker and Town-Man. l guess the girl's jobs explain themselves, as does my barking the side-show. And "Town
Man" is the guy that goes after light bulbs, tire repair and the like. The girls and l thought it would be much better than writing sponsor contracts and we jumped on it.
Oh, one last thing. My three girls and one more ride and walk on the elephants
during their performance.
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