Thursday, June 07, 2007

So, there is a Mike Cecere!

Buckles:
I tried (for the 1st time) to send a comment to your blog but
couldn't get through due to problems with the "Friends email address";
What friend??? ANY friend?

Anyway, Mike Cecere is alive & well. His mailing address (he doesn't
have an email address) is:

Mike Cecere
Double M Ranch
336 Baum Rd.
Hastings, NY 13076

Enjoy your blog a lot!
Frank Thompson

Posted by Buckles at 6/07/2007 11:58:00 AM

4 comments:

Harry Kingston said...

Mike Cecere, is for sure alive and well in Hastings New York.
He is the manager of the Double M Ranch. The late Arthur M. Brown started it and they are into catle and corn.
Also Mike has an african elephant he owns in the barn at the ranch and he tells me the locals like that.
Mike, is a very dear friend of mine for many many years.
We call each other and talk circus for many hours.
Mike has many circus stories and they are great to hear.
Arthur Brown had one of the Ringling railroad show cages and it was given to the circus world museum.
I am sure Mike would show you around the ranch and talk circus if you would like to visit him and i can furnish a phone number if yuo want.
He has busy times and slack times so i advise checking with him.
Mike is friends with many show folks plus a great animal trainer who has presented cats and elephants plus alot more.
Get him to tell you about his cat act on Hoxie Bros. with 5 of the wildest male lions you ever saw. He was lucky everday to come out of the cage alive.
I am glad to call Jungle Mike a great circus friend and a true freind of the circus.
With it and for it!!
Harry

07 June, 2007 14:45
Anonymous said...

click on the word " comment " , not the little envelope, and you can post a comment.

07 June, 2007 15:39
Anonymous said...

Mabel Stark was on Ringling from the winter of 1921, going out with them from '22 through '27. She returned from Europe to join out with ACC's John Robinson for 1928.

Bert Nelson (born Cardbert Nelson Snyder) was as successful in vaudeville with his single lioness act, as he was in circus--for example, when he took over the former Clyde Beatty Big Act, when Beatty quit RBBB interests, at the end of the 1934 H-W season. Bert came out with that act on H-W for 1935. I have no record of him being on RBBB directly.

08 June, 2007 18:28
Anonymous said...

I too thought Mike Cecere was dead. At least that is what I had been told. I worked with Mike back in the late 70's on the animal crew. They called me 'Birdman'. Leo Enthwistle taught me a lot about the animals when I signed up with Hoxie Bros. Circus in September of 76 in Manassas,Va.

28 June, 2007 11:47

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