thecircusblog | June 22, 2012
This is strange–and by strange I mean that I don’t know who these people are. The photo was shot by Tommy Bentley in 1959, just before the take over by Castro. I do know that Tommy had a lot of friends in Havana that were night club performers. Most of these performers were female impersonators. […]
thecircusblog | June 22, 2012
Photo taken in 1963 on the Rudy Bros Circus. Thanks for your comment Jim.
thecircusblog | June 22, 2012
Suarez Family with Tommy Bentley in the top center. The fellow kneeling and the blond girl they are unknown to me. At the time of this photo 1963, Rudy Bros Circus.
thecircusblog | June 22, 2012
Yes it is a great photo, but I have no idea who it is. In my collection of hundreds of photos I sometimes run across those that I do not know where they came from nor their names. So if you can, please put a name to this picture. Jim Parker gave me his name […]
thecircusblog | June 19, 2012
The photographer that took these pictures shot several of the same image at different angels. It gives a person that is viewing them a better prospective. The wagon loaded on the flat car, carries the quarter and three quarter poles. The wagon is a flat bed, alone the side are up right wooden stakes that […]
thecircusblog | June 19, 2012
In this photo the center pole wagon is loaded on the flat car to the left and to the right side of the photo is the quarter pole wagon. These wagons are called flat stake beds. You can see the wooden stakes holding in the quarter poles. These wagons carried nothing but tent poles. However […]
thecircusblog | June 19, 2012
Can you imagine the manpower that it took to set this show up, or for that matter any circus in those days. I think it would be totally impossible to set up a circus of this size in one day , as they did years ago. This photo taken in 1936.
