Terrel Jacobs
thecircusblog | June 3, 2011
Terrel Jacobs with his mixed group of Lions and Tigers performing at the Atlantic City Steel Pier … 1940? Clyde Beatty performed there as well just a few years before Terrel Jacobs.
thecircusblog | June 3, 2011
Terrel Jacobs with his mixed group of Lions and Tigers performing at the Atlantic City Steel Pier … 1940? Clyde Beatty performed there as well just a few years before Terrel Jacobs.
thecircusblog | March 29, 2011
This is an extremely rare photo………….. Frank Buck and Clyde Beatty were to appear together for the first and only time in a movie called “Africa Screams”, They co stared with Abbot & Costello. This photo was taken just before the shooting began at Republic Studios, produced and directed by Edward Nasour. In this photo […]
thecircusblog | March 21, 2011
This is a rare photo of Jack Bonavita. What you see here is an actual trick that Jack Bonavita performed in his act. This photo has not been tampered with. At the time of this photo Jack was with the Frank Bostock wild animal circus in England the year 1910. Frank Bostock was a wild […]
thecircusblog | March 21, 2011
Roger with his 8 week old Tiger cub’s. This cubs were to be used in the movie but there was some worry about there age and Roger did not want to take any chances with the babies. Photo taken Aug, 1968, at Jungleland.
thecircusblog | March 21, 2011
thecircusblog | February 3, 2011
Julius Von Yul? No………. It is Guy Gossing….Thank you Casey for the right name. I never worked with Guy, so had no idea what he looked like, but I did know of him and that he was an outstanding trainer. READ CASEY GIBBS COMMENT
thecircusblog | October 22, 2010
Ringling Bros Barnum and Baily Circus 1942. May Kovar working leopards and black panthers for Alfred Court. She was Alfred’s only female trainer. In this photo she is performing in ring number one. There were others in Alfred Court’s stable of trainers Damoo Ohotre, Joe Walch and Fritz Schultz to name a few. May Kovar’s daughter […]