Posted By thecircusblog on March 9, 2011
Mrs. Clark with her pony colts. All the kids on the show took part in braking the ponies to ride as soon as they were old enough……….. I and the others kids had a few sores but it was worth it, we had fun and we always had ponies to ride. Most of the ponies went to their ponies ride on the carnival midway the others were trained by Mr. Clark for the circus. The season of 1953.
Posted By admin on March 9, 2011
Mrs. Clarks took great care of their animals. The younger animals were separated from the rest and with hand feeding to make sure they got their grain as seen here. In the back ground on the left just above the ponies neck can be seen the Henry 1946 Dodge bobtail truck box, it hauled props animal and in the front was my bedroom suite, also none as a crummy………………. Home sweet home.Siebrand Bros Circus, 1953.
Posted By thecircusblog on March 9, 2011
I remember that we also used the word “Confab”. The putting together two words, Conjecture and Fabrication……………. But this is just gossip.
Posted By thecircusblog on March 8, 2011
A little known fact. Glenn Randall was the owner and trainer of all the horses used in the 1959 motion picture Ben Hur staring Charlton Heston.
Posted By thecircusblog on March 8, 2011
Their were four brothers in all that owned the show. John and Sam were the other two.
Posted By thecircusblog on March 8, 2011
We all waited for the week that we played Las Vegas. It wasn’t a great show spot but we had a lot of fun at the different casinos visiting with some of the acts that we knew and the food was out of this world, It sure beat the cook house. 1951.
