thecircusblog | June 25, 2012
Seen here is Jose playing the frying pans, most likely the tune was Rancho Grande. I first met Jose in 1956. My family went to visit the Escalante family in Los Angeles. Henry and Lalo decided to take us all out out for a Mexican dinner at Alvera St, a small Latino area where there […]
thecircusblog | February 19, 2009
It seems like it was just yesterday when Dad & I performed there….. its all gone now, but for the memories. We wintered Pan American Shows a block away, also Jungle Land Circus. Some of the finest wild animal trainers got their brake at this place. I can’t begin to tell you how many motion pictures were […]
thecircusblog | December 2, 2008
I admired this woman and her animal training skills immensely. The way she moved in the arena around the tigers was sheer poetry. I saw her last performance at Jungleland, Thousand Oaks, CA.
