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Circus International
thecircusblog | May 12, 2017
Jeff Powless sent this photo of the Hubert Castle Circus poster. The date is 1971. The show was playing Toronto but I know very little about Hubert’s show. In the mid 1960’s Dad and I worked with his show with our chimp act. In his younger years Hubert Castle was known as Hal Smith which […]
Pork Chop Review
thecircusblog | May 12, 2017
The name of this act is Uncle Heavy’s Pork Chop Review. Thanks Mary for your comment.
Polack Bros Circus
thecircusblog | May 7, 2017
This was the program cover. Not to bad a likeness of Pat Anthony. Pat was not particularly happy with it, which of course gave me the opportunity to rib him. Because of our friendship I could get away with it. My father and I first met Pat when he started training at the Jungleland compound in […]
Polack Bros Shrine Circus 1967
thecircusblog | May 7, 2017
Tony and Ingmar Smaha both were very wonderful people. They had a very classy horse act. As you see here in this photo, this horse leaping over 5 foot straight up from the arena floor.
Polack Bros Circus 1967
thecircusblog | May 7, 2017
Pete and Patrova were fine people and had a great act! Photo from the Jimmy Cole collection.
Polack Bros Shrine Circus 1967
thecircusblog | May 7, 2017
This photo came from the Jimmy Cole collection. Casey Gibbs sent it to me. This Tiger in the photo is Cubby and she was a trouble maker, always looking to start a fight with one of the lions. Cubby was also the safety cage door bouncer. She was the last cat to leave the arena, so […]
Polack Bros Shrine Circus 1967
thecircusblog | May 7, 2017
There were many times that Pat would ask me to work safety for him. That meant if anything should happen where he might be down on the floor, it would be my job to get the cat off of him. Pat had the sense to know when things could go wrong. The worst time was when females […]
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