Buckles Blog: No. 63- RBBB in Chicago 1947

Sunday, March 30, 2008

P03779, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Aug. 2, 1947 "Clowns pose on opening day"

Anonymous said...: The Atom Smasher...tall clown, right, orange and blue enters atom smasher, ka-boom, out pops little clowns, also in orange and blue; the atom has been smashed by the clowns of academia, caps and gowns.

Clown Formula #1--put something in a box, explosion/big noise, out pops something funny. Big laugh, exit.

I've seen photos of 4 little clowns with this same gag; perhaps opening day the fourth clown was held up by his H2B visa paperwork.; 30 March, 2008 08:33
Buckles said...: I personally preferred the Atomic Hair Grower!; 30 March, 2008 08:43
Anonymous said...: Thats When I "Hit" the Big Time..(or I thought I did)..When the Show had a Ally big enough to do the "Atomic Hair-Grower"...Before that...on the small shows the standard was the "Tide Gag" Do you think that little boy in the picture needed therapy.. later on in life?......Jim Zajicek (Fellow Fan of T.A.H.G.); 30 March, 2008 12:17
Anonymous said...: Wondered about the therapy thing... In 1947 what was scarier for a kid, clowns, or admitting to be afraid of clowns? Somehow I thing even fifteen years later had I said to my parents, "I'm afraid of the clowns" they'd have either laughed me out of the house, or chained me to a clown for a week until I got over it.; 30 March, 2008 19:49

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