thecircusblog | December 29, 2011
Hello Ivan! Here is a picture of Ken and Vesta Austin, “The Grimaldis”. Also a picture of two musical poodles which I suspect belonged to them. Can you or any of your readers possibly confirm that? I only remember (When I was a child) that Vesta had a singing poodle like the one pictured whose […]
thecircusblog | December 26, 2011
Chucko had one of the most popular, if not the number one kid show’s in Los Angeles, during the 1960’s.
thecircusblog | December 26, 2011
One of the sponsors for his TV show was Chocks vitamins for kids. Photo taken during to of the commercials for Chocks.
thecircusblog | November 4, 2011
Russell Bros Circus. From left to right top. Name unknown, name unknown, Dora Gutierrez, next looks like George Perkins? Bottom CoCo and Grace Fairburns and Maurice Marmalijo in middle.
thecircusblog | October 27, 2011
Chucko was probably the most successful of all the kid T.V. birthday shows and the competition was great. He was a clown that put everything into his act and it paid off for him. His wardrobe and makeup was immaculate. There were those that said he was just a T.V. clown…..NO! Chucko was circus though […]
thecircusblog | October 27, 2011
Charles “Chucko” Runyon not only had a kids TV show, he did personnel appearances throughout the Los Angeles area. During the winter when we were off the road and working Christmas shows, it was inevitable that Chucko would be on the bill with us.
thecircusblog | October 27, 2011
Chucko had a birthday party house at the Jungleland compound in Thousand Oaks, Calif. The little fellow on the left wearing a band uniform is Randy Runyon, Chucko’s son, who help his father by entertaining the kids. Thank you Janice for the comment.
thecircusblog | October 23, 2011
Bones and Olive doing the Canon gag. First you need a canon like this one and then two chickens. I will explain it as I saw Harry Ross do the gag. The one chicken is loaded into the mussel of the canon which is seen here with Bones. The second chicken is in a bird […]
thecircusblog | October 23, 2011
This photo I believe was taken in the back yard of the Al G. Barnes Circus some time in the 1930’s. The car in the background may help with the date. It is hard to say what circus he was on, because Bones was with several shows. I do remember much of his life stories […]
thecircusblog | October 23, 2011
The exploding chair is one clown gag that I have never seen. I have seen the collapsing chair gag that exploded but not the rocking chair. This very well could be the same thing. Bones was a good inventor and he would change gags to make them just a little different to fit his clown […]
