Great London Circus 1974
Posted By thecircusblog on May 13, 2013
I would recognize this man any where. The one and only Herbie Weber doing his slide for life.
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Great London Circus 1974
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
A prop hand who is a friend of Mike Cappi sent this photo of his coveralls. Intern Mike emailed it to me. Thanks for the memories.
Great London Circus 1974
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
A Mike Cappi photo. I hope he will I.D. these photos for me or someone that remembers this act.
Thanks Carol for your comment on this performers name …. LOTHAR.
Henry Bros Circus Lost Then Found
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
Back in 2008 I posted these original tickets and letterhead. The reason I have reposted them is because I thought I had lost or may have even thrown them away while cleaning out my office. I frantically have been looking for them ever since to avail, that is until a few days ago. I had put them in a air tight album, then stored them in a file box along with other old photos, I did not name the file. By dumb luck they were found. In 1977 at my father funeral Steve Vaughn a circus fan and sales person for a tent company gave me these treasures of the past. Throughout the years I complained to circus fans and Bob Cline about losing them. I did receive copies pf my grandfathers letterheads and I thank my friends for that. So in celebration of finding a small part of my heritage I post them again.
Henry Bros Circus Band
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
From left to right Arthur Henry, Todd Henry, Robert Henry, Glen Henry, and Clifford Henry. Bertha Henry their sister took the photo. 1923? All the boys had a nick name that they had given each other. These are the reasons as close as I can remember being told. I do not want this photo to fool you into thinking that they were the circus. All the boys were performers and only played as stand in. Max Craig father was the band leader.
Henry Bros Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
This was J.E. Henry’s house trailer. The house trailer was home made and built by J.E. and his sons as was all the other trailers and semi’s. The under frame of his trailer was from a model A Ford, and the hitch was a steel tongue and pin as there were no ball hitches then. It is known that my grandfather built the first original house trailer. It contained bed, kitchen. small wash area and closets. The roof was constructed with wooden lath and canvas. Some type of masonite material was the outer skin.
Henry Bros Circus Banner
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
This is a photo taken by my grandfather J.E. Henry sometime around 1920 give or take a year. You can see a small mud show menagerie banner line. What I would give to have these banners now. Grandfather in the early years never had a large circus, a family show only. In the later 1920’s he grew it somewhat larger and hired acts, one being Hal Smith who changed his name to Hubert Castle. He also had other and larger outside attractions. In the 1930’s the show geow even larger but never the size of Cole Bros Ringling Bros and the like.
Henry Bros Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on May 12, 2013
Here is another photo that my grandfather took. I’m guessing early 1920’s. Again I was rummaging though old boxes and folders and found this photo with some others. It is without question that the find made my day. The man on the running board is my Uncle Arthur the oldest of the Henry boys.
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