thecircusblog | September 5, 2018
As a kid growing up in the circus world it got just a little boring to watch your fellow performers. Comedy was fun and no better were Laurel and Hardy, they would make my day. Even when I was performing in what ever acts at the time, Laurel and Hardy skits often ran though my mind. To this […]
thecircusblog | June 16, 2017
After Bill Caress left the 101, his acting career started. Bill is in the center pointing at the pocket watch that Tom Mix is holding.
thecircusblog | December 21, 2012
Actor and one of Gene Holter’s camels on location shooting the movie ” Rin Tin Tin”. 1965? Ray Chandler was the head trainer on this movie.
thecircusblog | November 30, 2012
This is a Hagenbeck & Wallace circus cargo wagon. Louie Goebel bought a great many of them as well as a few Al G. Barnes wagons. The wagon in this photo along with others was rented from Mr. Goebel for the movie called “The Big Circus”. It was not uncommon for these wagons to be […]
thecircusblog | November 30, 2012
On this movie, The Big Circus, some of the Gene Holter animals were used. Gene’s camel is seen in this photo. Ray Chandler was the head animal man for for Gene on the show. The top photo was shot on location Cliff Henry, Jimmy Woods and Louie Goebel supplied much of the circus equipment and […]
thecircusblog | November 30, 2012
This wagon also at one time was owned by Louie Goebel. Where it is located now is anyone’s guess. At the back of the wagon is a drop center constructed this way to hold water for seals or hippopotamus. There were a few drop centers made that housed a electrical generator, aka “Hot Wagon” The […]
thecircusblog | October 4, 2012
From left to right, myself, Ronnie Louis, four from the left… Bill Couch. The names of the other three members of our group escape me. Jumbo was a big musical movie shot at M.G.M studios in 1962. Staring in the movie were Stephen Boyd, Martha Raye, Jimmy Durante, Doris Day and Dean Jagger.
thecircusblog | October 4, 2012
We were known as “Barbette’s Boys” on the set. The six of us did trapeze on a single trap bar 12 foot long. Each trick we did was perfectly timed together. It took weeks to get our timing down for the few tricks we did. The trapeze routine turned out to be one of the […]
