My dad had his camera and flashgun along that day and managed to get a few Kodachrome color photos during the clown walk-around. |
Friday, May 29, 2009
Grotto Circus-15
Posted by Buckles at 5/29/2009 05:40:00 AM
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Probably Dick "Rocko" Lewis.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
I'll second that. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Rocko the original clown at Circus World in Baraboo?
His makeup here looks a lot like Lou Jacobs would have if he had been a whiteface. Something I never new until Dolly showed me some old photos was that Lou actually started his clowning career as a whiteface. I don't know if he started developing the look that we all know today in Germany or after he came to the US.
I believe that he started as a white face and that he used that face over here. I think Papa 'officially' made the switch to the face we all knew and loved sometime in the late 40's or early 50's. ~frank
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