Lea Abbott, the very interesting and charming octagenarian aviator I hed met at Bartlesville Antique Biplane Fly-in in early June, loaded his Curtiss Pusher onto a trailer and pulled it all the way up to Oshkosh from his home in Texas and he flew it daily in the afternoon airshow during the big week. At Bartlesville, he was quite a skeptic about taking the Air Adventurers Club pledge and I finally talked him into joining the ranks when I met up with him again at Oshkosh.
At Oshkosh, I met Jessie Woods, who worked as a brave Wingwalker in 1929 through 1939. She traveled with her husband, the lead aviator and a troupe of barnstormers, known as "The Flying Aces" throughout the Midwest and lived a hard, but most exciting lifestyle. A few months later, toward the end of my jouney, I visited Jessie at her apartment on Florida and she showed me her scrapbooks and photo albums. She was a sweet and expressive lady with an exciting past.
The flying aces poster above doesn't have a year printed on it, but Jessie told me they performed together from 1929 to 1939. On the poster it becons passengers to ride for just a penny a pound. And a whole carload of people was paid $2 admission to the grounds.