Joey Emory's MyAir Productions

Hello there, Welcome to the Hub!!

Joseph,

contact puppet hub member apuppetshoforall he is the guy who learned from Jimmy and has some of Jimmy's puppets

Hey Joseph, I just got this new cell phone number for Fred Cowan from the Indiana Puppetry Guild 765-481-7797

Dear Joseph,

In 1975 at age 21 I went to work in Wichita KS. for a company called Trotter Bros Productions. The Trotter Bros who were not brothers by the way had spent most of the career as a night club puppet act in Europe. They came back to their home in kansas and started a company that did large scale puppet shows. They got into the amusemenmt park business a few years into my stay with them, and at one point were considering hiring Jimmy to help build puppets for the upcoming season. We were building marionette variety shows for at least five different parks on the east coast by then. I think the time frame would be about 1978. I was asked my opinon about hiring Jimmy, and told them it would be a great idea and improve the quality of our product , and in fact take it to a whole different level. Now mind you the Trotter Bros[ their names were David Trotter and Bob Munson] were fully aware of how talented Jimmy was and decided not to hire him because Jimmy wanted the grand sum of $250.00 a week. Now mind you this was 1978 and he would have been earning much more than anyone else in the shop at that time, but would you believe they did not hire Jimmy because he was just too expensive? I know for a fact that they had more than enough money, and believe you me we worked more than a 40 hour week. In fact years later the Trots got in throuble for not paying minimum wage to some employees. I remember thing at the time boy are you guys dumb! Jimmy Roland for only $250 a week. Needless to say these guys were not the brightest pennies in the roll.

Hey Joseph I just realized the fellow from Cincinatti that knew Jimmy is appupetsho4all here on puppet hub

OK now I've got it puppetsho4all

keep looking he was there last night

Ok go to the gropups page look under the group of live puppet theatger profesionals. The ninth picture down is very small ands doesn't fill the block that is apuppetshow4all

One P in Puppet LOL

Hey Joseph Glad you got one of the skeletons one of the best break-away puppets ever made. Great Roland design