thecircusblog | September 26, 2009
This was part of my learning how to read. As a kid while traveling over the road going from town to town with the circus my Dad and Mom would have me read every road sign as we past them. Burma Shave was everywhere and about just about 20 miles down the road there would […]
thecircusblog | September 26, 2009
Kerby Grant as Sky King and Penny Singleton. She later became the A.G.V.A. president. Kerby Grant also was a guest star on many circuses. He did not ride in on a horse or rope or shoot a gun, but he did have a way with words and he spoke always about America and education and doing the right thing. […]
thecircusblog | September 26, 2009
My Mother almost electrocuted the whole family with one of these trees. When she plugged in the lights. Christmas became the 4th of July……… That’s why we started celebrating Hanukkah………… Its safer. This is not our original tree, Ours was much larger and…….. CRISP.
thecircusblog | September 26, 2009
This has nothing to do with the circus but I thought you would like to see the cartoons that many of us enjoyed in the 1950’s. DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR GRANDCHILD IS WATCHING NOW?
thecircusblog | April 13, 2009
When I was a kid in the early 1950’s, there were these fantastic movies on TV about the animal kingdom. This lady Osa and her husband Martin went to Africa, Borneo and South America where they photographed wild animals. I am sure these pictures were never seen before by anyone. Osa and Martin were not circus people but what they did was to […]
thecircusblog | April 13, 2009
They hunted the animals with motion picture cameras. Osa and her husband Martin flew to different parts of the world to film animals in their natural habitat. They also filmed the native people of where they were and many of these tribes had never been photographed before. In the 1930’s it took a great deal of courage to travel to these far […]
