Friday, September 12, 2008

A Bobby Gibbs Gallery #4

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

How many people can or could claim that they were "memorialized on the lot of Head Bros. Circus?

Buckles said...

I am proud to say that Barbara and I and "Anna May" were.

Anonymous said...

The other interesting item about this photo is that I believe the robe Bobby is wearing is the one he had made from the back door curtain at Circus World Museum when the tent was up on the hill by the wagon barn. Some changes were being made and you all know how Bobby was and there is no sense wasting something like that, especially when there was enough fabric to cover him. It made a great piece of wardrobe with a double history and allowed him to reminse about Baraboo.
Ralph from Baraboo

Anonymous said...

Yes the Baraboo back door curtain a Mamey Ward creation refitted to Mr.Gibbs by Tepa hall,

Anonymous said...

I met Herb during the eastern
US blackout in Detroit.
What a great circus fan!!! As I recall one of his sons got him to the lot.
We spent the first night sleeping in our van in a rest area (at that time we didn't have a trailer) must have been 110 degrees heat index. We had had just arrived in MI and there were no motels anywhere near Detroit. The NASCAR race was on that weekend and every motel was full.
We finally got as motel for Saturday night. We played the Detroit Parks and they are something to behold.
Boib Kitto