Tuesday, December 26, 2006

From Raffaele de Ritis #2




Pablo Noel at Circo Americano. The picture is taken in Italy or Spain around 1978. Posted by Picasa

Posted by Buckles at 12/26/2006 05:32:00 AM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is without a doubt the best head in the mouth picture I have ever seen! Thank you Raffaele for posting this.

26 December, 2006 06:08
Anonymous said...

I am pleased that my recall of Pablo is recognized and the lion I saw him do it with both times was a neutured male, and this is obviously a full maned male in all his glory. We could also talk about his grat act in general, but I suppose thats for another day.

26 December, 2006 08:17
Casey McCoy Cainan said...

That is amazing!!!!

26 December, 2006 09:38
Anonymous said...

I remember Pio Nock( I beleive) doing his act over Pablo's lions. This is how they got the lions into the ring without a total blackout or wasted time. Always thought it was a great act, but I was young then and don;t remember the whole routine. I think I only saw his act the last year on RBBB before Wolfgang came. Great photo, Thanks.

27 December, 2006 00:14
Anonymous said...

Darryl, You may have confussed the two acts. Pablo Noel was on the Blue unit ('72 - '73), Wolfgang Hotzmier was on the Red ('70* - '76). Pio Nock did the final portion of his high wire act over Wolfgang's (entering)lion act in '73 - '74. I understand that one time he fell into the cage (caused by cable anchor coming loose??)and Wolfgang picked him up and dragged him out before the lions figured out what happened.

(*Wolfgang was added the the program the 2nd year of the '69 - '70 red show tour)

27 December, 2006 07:02
Anonymous said...

Thanks Jimmy you are probably right. Like I said i was young and now my recall is not as good.

01 January, 2007 19:33

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