Dolly Jacobs

| January 13, 2011

               Shriners love to pose with an elephant but of course it helps if there is a pretty lady. Photo taken in the late 1940’s on the Gil Gray Circus.

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Jacob’s Elephants

| January 13, 2011

  Modoc, Empress and Judy. Thanks Toni for your comment. Ralph was a good friend of mine and did a great favor for me in 1958.

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A Big Shrine Date

| January 13, 2011

                “Thank you very much for this great opportunity.”  Photo taken mid 1930’s.

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Fargo Shriners

| January 13, 2011

Fargo N.D. Shrine circus committee looking over their posters for the up and coming Gil Gray circus. Photo taken Jan, 1935.

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G.G.G. Circus Elephants

| January 13, 2011

                             Dolly Dumbo is  just a little bigger now and ready for her training.                                     

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A Shiner’s Gift

| January 13, 2011

Gil looks on as a child is being paid a tribute. The Shriner’s are known for their great work with the crippled children’s hospital. For years they have contributed  money made from the different shrine circuses all over the country and thousands of kids have been helped.  May God bless the Shriner’s for their wonderful work and contributions. In […]

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A Happy Potentate

| January 13, 2011

 

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Gil Gray’s Christmas?

| January 13, 2011

                                                     Billy Burke poses  on what I believe to be a Christmas float.

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Billy Burke

| January 13, 2011

                                                                                                          Gil Gray circus mid 1960’s.

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Abe Goldstein

| January 4, 2011

How well I remember Abe and that old sock billy club!  There was a mystery about him ….in all of the years that I had worked with him I really never knew him on a personal basis….he was just there on the show working with the other clowns. I never saw him with a car […]

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