Showbiz Dictionary: “The Flag is Up”
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
The Flag is Up: When the flag went up on the cook house, it alerted the perfromers that it was time to eat.
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Showbiz Dictionary: “Pie Car”
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
Pie Car: Another place where circus performers ate, mainly on railroad and truck circuses.
Showbiz Dictionary: “Cookhouse”
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
Cookhouse: A large tent where the circus performers and laborers ate while on the show.
Terrell Jacobs
thecircusblog | December 11, 2008
At first glance, this photo looks like an arena over head net, but if you look again, they are doing repair work on a flying act net. In the back ground are the cat cages. This photo may have been taken on Terrell’s circus…… After looking at this photo again and again, I am thinking that it […]
Terrell Jacobs
thecircusblog | December 11, 2008
A mixed group of lions and tigers……one of the best cat acts in the business.
Captain Harold Winston
thecircusblog | December 11, 2008
Winston’s seal act played just about every foreign country. It was a great act and Winston was a great showman.
Ray and Dorothy
thecircusblog | December 11, 2008
At Bill Capell’s winter quarters there was always a merry go round to be repaired and Ray Barber was there to paint it. Dorothy Capell always made sure it was done right.
Three Friends
thecircusblog | December 11, 2008
In 2004 Ray Barber and Bill Capell came to visit me at the Maricopa County Fair. As always we had a lot of stories to tell each other and most of them we told each other a hundred times before.
Shorty & the Reporter
thecircusblog | December 6, 2008
1978, Ratoone, NM. Henry Bros circus, We were just getting ready for a performance when a newspaper reporter tried to take a picture of Shorty. Every time he would begin to take a picture, Shorty would nuzzle his forehead. Thus the above picture.
Mac and Peggy MacDonald
thecircusblog | December 6, 2008
What an elephant man! He inspired other elephant trainers to do their very best. This photo was taken on Pollock Bros. Circus.
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