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Monday, July 28, 2008
Helmut Schlinker!
Posted by Buckles at 7/28/2008 12:36:00 PM
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11 comments:
Darryl Atkinson knows who it is.
Clownron thinks it is Roland Kaiser.
What an outrageous suggestion!
And Casey McCoy Cainan is correct.
I sure don't have a clue, but I do plan on visiting the Red Unit and Joe Frisco on Sat. as they hit Dallas in two days.
Henry Penndorf, ToddP and Jim Alexander are all correct but I suspect Casey might have tipped Jim off.
Honest John,
I didn't help anyone. Why though, did we mis spell his name the same?
Dick Flint fooled me, I thought he would say Alfred Court but he got it.
Helmut Schlinker was know`n as "Piccolo" and he was with Gunther and the Williams and Althoff Circuses since 1947. I remember him as the groom for the Ponies on my Onkels Show, Circus Adolf Althoff when I was very very little. We kids just to go in to the stable and untited the ropes so the ponies could run off and we watched Piccolo run after them with his short legs and tought that was funny. Kids can be mean.
On Ringling he keept care of the African Elephants and was the baby sitter for Gunthers Son Mark Oliver.
He loved his Budweiser and visits to the Strip Clubs.
Henry Schroer
Henry,
And also his Marlboro's. Picci used to have me get him "a six pack of Budviser and a packet of Marlboro", and leave it in the car, so he could sneak it out later when Boss wasn't looking. Boy did Gunter hate smoking.
Casey McCoy Cainan just bought Gunther's Autobiography last week, that's how he knew the answer.
Wade Burck
Good reading, but it's not in there.
I knew that! :) I had forgot that Piccolo name was Helmet.
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