thecircusblog | April 27, 2009
I just happened to find this old add advertising the Osa and Martin Johnson Jungle Adventures. This has nothing to do with the circus, or does it? Drive in theaters were quite the rage many years ago, mainly in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Then they started to loose there popularity. If you’re old enough to remember this, just […]
thecircusblog | April 27, 2009
It is most apparent that Clyde Beatty loved his animals as this photo shows. As for or myself, I never met an animal I didn’t like. I guess you could say that about most all animal trainers, at least the 0nes that I knew in the circus. In all of the years of my owning and training……my […]
thecircusblog | April 27, 2009
To tell you the truth, I love to read these old posters. They were created to excite the public and their imagination and thus brought them to the circus. Tom Mix is featured in this season with Sells Floto. Does any one remember Hoot Gibson? He was another famous movie cowboy and he worked in a few after shows. […]
thecircusblog | April 27, 2009
The Season was 1953 and the show was having record crowds and why not? Circuses were the best form of family entertainment money could buy. It made no difference what show you took your family to they all offered good clean entertainment, and when you left the show grounds you and your children were still […]
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
This photo is from the 1953 motion picture “Perils of the Jungle” starring Clyde Beatty. The studio changed his regular circus wardrobe for some unknown reason. All in all the movie was not bad, it was considered a B+ movie. Clyde Beatty is the only circus performer that I know of to ever star in a motion picture. The studios […]
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
Here is another movie that Clyde Beatty was featured in. I never saw this movie but I am sure it’s in a video store. Just for fun I think I’ll take a look.
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
Nero was Clyde’s favorite working lion. Nero was a fighting cat and a very good one at that. Clyde put on a exciting whip and chair routine, It was all show. As you can see here, he was very content with his master. However there was one incident where Nero did nail Clyde in the […]
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
Best known as Hopalong Cassidy, William Boyd was featured on Cole Bros. Circus. He also starred in numerous motion pictures and his famous television series. One of his side-kicks was Andy Clyde, know as California. Dad and I did a Christmas show with him in 1956. One of the things I remember about him was […]
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
1951 Program Cover….note the cost of only 25 cents. They employed a very innovative art and marketing staff.
thecircusblog | April 23, 2009
This is what you could call a real “armload.” It is obvious that Clyde Beatty loved his animals. It was a well know fact, that he took outanding care of all his animals.
