Hagenbeck & Wallace Circus
thecircusblog | August 18, 2018
thecircusblog | August 18, 2018
thecircusblog | August 18, 2018
All that I can say is, so very sad. Photo sent to me from Jack Badal.
thecircusblog | August 17, 2018
Try to set up a circus on any old pasture. These day you would draw a blank. I remember the time that people would help set up the show, just for a tree entrance ticket.
thecircusblog | August 17, 2018
I am not sure of the name. It says on the bottom, Bollers Circus and a name I can not make out. the date Sept 9th 1925. Your help is needed here on the correct name, or if this one is correct.
thecircusblog | August 16, 2018
They say that he never mist a performance. This photo was sent to me by a dear friend Bill V. Rauscher.
thecircusblog | August 16, 2018
thecircusblog | August 16, 2018
This was my Grandmothers home after J.E. Henry passed away, 1945. Before then they lived on Garvey, Blvd, this was J.E’s show winter quarters. Town of El Monte, Calif. In this photo along the side of the house is our trailer and car. During the winter we stayed here making it easier to play the Christmas shows in […]
thecircusblog | August 16, 2018
This is Arthur Henry I just discovered. His age was 17. The make up is the give away. All the Henry brothers used the square mouth and a dot on the forehead, it was just a Henry thing. Most often in winter and the show was in the barn, Vaudeville at that was a money […]
thecircusblog | August 16, 2018
From left to right Al, Jimmy and Bertha Henry Conner. If you know the first name of this show please comment.
thecircusblog | August 16, 2018
Arthur was the oldest of the Henry brothers. Where he got the nick name Bum from, I’ll never know.