Seymour Ernest J. Cox Airfield On South Main St.

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I was reading the newspaper The Houston Post dated April 1, 1921 and came across an advertisement for the Wild-Cat Aerial Circus.

Have You Bought Your Tickets For the Great Aerial Circus?

Mrs. S.E.J. Cox, Director of the Circus.

The world’s most exciting, thrilling, sensational and hair-raising dare-devil stunts ever preformed are to be shown in Houston at the great Wild-Cat Aerial Circus which will start at 2 o’clock on Saturday afternoon, April 2d.

No real red-blooded American whose every pulse tingles when excitement is high can afford to miss this greatest of all aerial exhibitions.

The greatest daredevils of all time, with new thrilling and wonderful aerial stunts, the best that the combined talent of America and Europe produces, will all be shown to those who attend this marvelous circus. 

$10,000.
This is really a circus and everyone who attends will get $10.00 worth of entertainment and excitement; but as the whole show is being given for the benefit of the Volunteers of America and their charitable work in Houston, the tickets will be sold at the very low price of 50c and $1.00 each.

Anyone who has not already obtained a ticket for this record-breaking entertainment should secure one immediate at the following downtown stores:

Radford Drug Co. , Main and Preston
The Olympia Candy Kitchen, Main and Congress
J. Loewenstein & Son Cigar Store, 216 Main
American Confectionery, Main and Preston
Max Block, Candies and Cigars, Main & Texas
Anderson Drug Co. Main and Rusk
Public Drug Co., Main and Walker
South End Pharmacy, Louisiana and McGowen
Pressley & Reed, Louisiana and McGowen

Lieut. H.C. Block, Miss Marry Cox, Capt. O.B. Freeman, H.B. Snow, Daredevil Dick Seal, and Percy Hoose.

Saturday afternoon, April 2nd.
N.B. - Don't come to the circus if your heart is weak.
Cox Field : : : : South Main Street.

Attend the Aerial Circus
Saturday, April 2
At the South Main Street Flying Field
Benefit Volunteers of America

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More information this week!! I found this airfield on the 1930s cartoon map.  It does help with a physical location and address. The airfield is located behind the Peter Pan Dude Ranch, which has an address of 6540 South Main Street.  Did the airfield have an address if there wasn't any buildings or structures? So maybe we could affix the address of 6540 South Main?

Photos from the mid 1910s, probably dated 1919?

Nell McDonald Cox and Seymour Ernest J. Cox pose next to a Curtiss Oriole airplane.

Right to left by the wing are Seymour Ernest J. Cox, Sr., his wife, Edith Nell Mc Donald Cox and their son, Seymour Ernest J. Cox, Jr.