Buckles Blog: CYCLES #2

Friday, January 22, 2021

CYCLES #2

9 comments:

Chic Silber said...: The Frielanis with Fritz

Fred Lothar Greta & Evelyn

Don't know the boy on top; 23 January, 2021 09:54
Chic Silber said...: This is on Big Bertha

Later they came to Beatty; 23 January, 2021 09:55
Chic Silber said...: Greta performed as the

"Danish Bird of Paradise"

as the featured trapeze

in the aerial ballet; 23 January, 2021 09:56
Chic Silber said...: Lothar Geyer later went

on to perform an elegant

"One Finger" routine; 23 January, 2021 09:58
Chic Silber said...: I believe that's Otto Griebling

on the lower right on the track; 23 January, 2021 10:25
Chic Silber said...: This would have been

at "Garden #3" or as

some of us still call

it "The Old Garden"

on 8th at 49th-50th

streets in Manhattan; 23 January, 2021 10:50
Roger Smith said...: I knew them on the Beatty show, in '64. We had Joe Galasso working his one-finger stand, and in the backyard, Lothar was just beginning to practice his.

One day, Greta Frisk fell from her single trap and was saved with a heroic catch by her husband, Fritz. It was a terribly close call. In the ring, they stood in an embrace for a moment, and Greta looked up at him and said, "Oh, darling. Let's quit."; 23 January, 2021 16:31
Roger Smith said...: When the electrical system (forgive me) "fritzed" in Beatty's Airstream, Lothar surprised many by having the skills to trace the outage and thoroughly re-wire the trailer.; 26 January, 2021 17:57
Chic Silber said...: In retirement after his divorce

from Jill Lothar bought a charter

fishing boat that he operated

out of Cortez very near Bradenton

Beach with his 2nd wife Charlene

That was until the boat burned

to the water line one afternoon; 26 January, 2021 19:32

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