thecircusblog | August 16, 2009
My mother was and still is a collector of things especially those things having to do with show business. In December of 1949 my parents did a Christmas show at the Flamingo Hotel. I vaguely remember the trip. It was a one day two show gig with my mother’s dog act. My mother I guess liked the menu so […]
thecircusblog | August 16, 2009
This is what the hotel looked like in the old days 1945. Photo was taken by my mother with a Kodak box camera, I know……….. she still has it.
thecircusblog | April 10, 2009
Wishing you a very Happy and Blessed Easter from Ivan M. Henry and thecircusblog.com
thecircusblog | March 12, 2009
My name is Ivan M. Henry and I am the creator of thecircusblog.com. I would like to talk to you about the Circus and the people that make their living in it. For several hundred years the circus in one form or other has brought joy, thrills, laughter and excitement but more than that it offers […]
thecircusblog | February 26, 2009
Here is Babe when she was near seventy years old. Photo taken mid 60’s at World Jungle Compound, Thousand Oaks, Calif. When I was a child on the circus I would sneak out at night from our house trailer and go to the menagerie where I would curl up to Babe and Dutch and sometimes fall […]
thecircusblog | February 10, 2009
AL Kayda was the owner of Kay Bros Circus. He was based in southern California and played all the towns in the Los Angels area. The money was good and the jumps were short. Before Mr. Kayda was a circus producer he was a mortician. He retired from that and got into the circus business. I never […]
thecircusblog | February 10, 2009
Just before every show Al Kada would go to the center ring and blow his whistle and then walk away because he was shy and didn’t want to announce the show. On this day, I made Al stay in the ring and announce the first act.
