The Eriksons
Posted By thecircusblog on September 8, 2009
I asked my friend Joanne Wilson Pinson to write a little history on the Erikson’s and she did in the following story. Thanks Joanne….Ivan…….
The Eriksons lived north of us on hwy 41. They had a mobile home park and were best friends with our Mom and Dad. Concha is the mother of Dorothy Yerkes and sister of Felix Morales and the great trapeze star Teresa Morales. Felix was famous for the head slide down the wire and Teresa did heel catches on the swing trapeze. Teresa was featured on Ringling Bros with a poster depicting her doing the heel catch. Another brother was Pedro Morales who did a great head to head balancing act with a partner and later with his son little Pedro.And another sister was Lola, who I knew but don’t know much about her history. These folks were great performers. Concha’s husband was Carl and his brothers were from Germany. They did the Erickson Hand balancing act and my sister Penny worked with them when they were on the Siebrand show and other shows. This family will go down in history as one of the greats. There is so much more about them that I don’t know. But every story I hear about them is better then the last one. I am going to ask Penny some more about them as she probably knows some great stories. P.S. If you look closely at the picture you will see that one of the women is a man !!!!!!!……………Readers info….. It was quite common for some men to wear a women’s costume. It is part of the act. At the end of act they would pull their wig off and a portion of wardrobe. This was a surprise to the audience and created a strong finish.
Penny Wilson left a wonderful comment. Thank you…..Ivan
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