Ed.C.Learmont
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
Mr. Learmont owned many circus and movie animal stars. Her is pictured here with Sammy the chimp.
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Learmont Chimps
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
Do a little dance, sing a little song, stick out your tongue and pat your head, spin around and don’t fall down. As you can see, they are having lots of fun. The trainer of these chimps was Al Antinuchi.
Chimp Jump Rope
thecircusblog | December 13, 2008
This chimp is having fun with his trainer Al Antinuchi …..notice the smile on the chimps face.
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.
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.
Stimax Comedy Chimps
thecircusblog | December 6, 2008
I saw their act but never got a chance to talk “monkey business” with them. I should say Chimp business.
The Flying Viennas
thecircusblog | December 4, 2008
Rickie and David Nelson, Babs and Del Graham. In the early 60’s Del trained Rickie as a flyer and David as a catcher. Del did a great job in teaching these young men. Rickie did five tricks and a passing leap with Babs. Everyone in the business was quite surprised that they were so good. In […]
Mandrake and Velvet
thecircusblog | December 4, 2008
In the early 1950’s Dad and I did a Christmas show at the Shrine auditorium in Los Angeles. Leon Mandrake needed help with a gimmick on a trick called the “Floating Handkerchief”. The magic act was after the chimp act and there was a rush for me to get across stage to get to the gag that […]
The Girl In The Moon #1
thecircusblog | December 4, 2008
Not too long ago a gentleman by the name of Alan Schwartz sent me this brochure cover and inside were these wonderful photos with one letter head, all will follow on the next pages. I believe this act was in the late 40’s or early 50’s.
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