Friday, August 29, 2008

Guy Gossing tigers (From Eric Beheim)


9-1968 Columbus Shrine Circus (Guy Gossing tigers), originally uploaded by bucklesw1.



Someone requested a photo of Guy Gossing's tiger act. Here is one taken in April 1968 (over 40 years ago!) in Columbus, Ohio at the Aladdin Temple Shrine Circus.

Eric

Posted by Buckles at 8/29/2008 06:12:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

HOw many cats did Guy Gossing work?Also where did he start his circus career at?

29 August, 2008 09:26
Anonymous said...

I recall Gossings lion act before he went to tigers and that he sold the tiger act to the Schmidt family to be presented by Eddie Schmidt.

29 August, 2008 09:30
Mike Naughton said...

I recall Eddie's proper first name was Edca (or like that)

Any other recollections of that?

29 August, 2008 11:31
Anonymous said...

This Shrine Circus was probably produced by M & M Circus Internationale (Grace McIntosh and Chuck Marine).The ring curbs look familiar as I unloaded and loaded them many times. He would have played this date after Rochester, as one of the three dates M & M had after Orrin davenport died. The other one was Lincoln,NB.

Loading his cat semi was not the easiest in the snow (typical of circus week here).

Bill Galloway,Rochester,NY

30 August, 2008 18:43

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