thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
An encounter with a 16 foot reticulated Python is not a funny matter. This man got lucky. A 26 foot Python nailed Jack Badal and had him down on the exhibit floor. It took six men to uncoil the snake and John Dole, one of the trainers for the Los Angeles Zoo, to dislodge the […]
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
The Gil Gray Circus 1950. Bottom row on right is Mary Gray; on the far left, Yolanda Zoppe. Perhaps you recognize someone. We may have one? check out comment from Margaret Duke.
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
Help me with a name…………. It kind of looks like Eloise and Morgan? OK It is Janice Daniels John Cuneo 1972. Thanks for the comment. Carol Bradley is trying to find Janice Daniels. Please read comment.
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
Jack Harrison with his new protege, Roger Zoppe on the Gil Gray Circus.
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
Fargo, North Dakota, Shrine Circus. Gil is standing on the extreme right next to the man with trombone. Can you pick out your performer friends?
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
I can’t tell you how many times I was on the stake line. I did not begrudge it; it surly will keep you in shape. Many of the old tent crews would play a game with a “First of May.” They would take a sixteen pound sledge hammer, hold it at the very end of […]
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
This is one chimp act I never saw. Not that I didn’t want to, I just never had the opportunity. I bet they were good, though, After all, it was a chimp act!
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
This is a very famous 1903 photograph by Bob Wallace for the Golmar Bros. Circus of Lotus the Hippopotamus. She was a female Nile Hippo and she eventually became the most famous. The fact that Lotus was a female, and that her species was a Nile Hippo, made her easier to handle. Males are indeed […]
thecircusblog | September 8, 2011
Frank and Lee Ternary were a comedy dance team. Their venues were mostly Nite Clubs and some Fairs. Home base for them was New Orleans. Photo from the 1940’s.
