thecircusblog | August 31, 2010
This photo brings back so many wonderful memories for me. Johnny and Milonga are like family, and I could write for hours of the jackpots we experienced together. I will just write of one. I believe it was 1960…Dad and I took the chimp act to Hawaii for E. K. Fernandez. Johnny had the elephant [...]
thecircusblog | August 31, 2010
Eloise and her African elephant Koa appearing with Harold Bros. Circus at the International Amphitheatre 1959.
thecircusblog | July 16, 2010
I just got this photo from the late Gil Grays daughter, Mary Gray Fraser. It saddens me to say that we also lost Bill Strong Oct 18,2009. I never met Bill personally but though our show blogs and our exchanging comments, we became good friends. I miss his humble honesty.
thecircusblog | July 7, 2010
It is said that since 1915 there has not been a season without a Hanneford appearing in one or in part of a leading American circus including their own shows. “Poodles Hanneford” is the third from the left, His mother is standing to his left.
thecircusblog | June 14, 2010
Left to right Mable Stark tiger trainer, Terrel Jacobs lions trainer, Bert Nelson mix group of lions and tigers. All three acts worked at the same time in three different rings to open the show. Al.G. Barnes Sells Floto combined. Circus, 1938.
thecircusblog | June 14, 2010
There are just a few that could handle big chimps and make it look easy, Rueben was one of them and just maybe the best of all. The other one other my Dad…. he had a way with chimps. I saw him at the Jungleland compound more than once catch run away chimps that somehow broke [...]
thecircusblog | May 29, 2010
This photo was taken of him on his jungle farm 1942. George Keller was known for his dynamic cat act,”Keller’s Jungle Killers”. He got his nick name “Professor ” because he was a college professor of visual arts at Bloomsburg Teachers Collage, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, This was before he became a cat trainer… most likely he thought it was safer in [...]
thecircusblog | May 29, 2010
Roger Smith sent this article to me for posting in the circus blog ……….Thanks Roger. I can’t count the times I have had to shout out “keep those people back”. It is an animal man’s nightmare when the audience is to close to the ring…………… Remember Casey, how hard it was with the Chimp act. Read [...]
thecircusblog | May 29, 2010
In the lower right hand corner can be seen Bill Horn’s autograph to Roger Smith, also a lion trainer.
thecircusblog | May 21, 2010
Dave Hoover doing a remarkable job in filling the shoes of Clyde Beatty. After the death of Clyde Beatty in 1965, the show was without their feature and star act. The very capable Dave Hoover took over in 1966. If my memory serves me correctly the last time I saw Dave was some time in the late [...]
