Saturday, January 15, 2011

"BEARS" #6


Scan00000010167, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 1/15/2011 05:53:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think this is the first picture of Bev & Charlie to appear on your blog.
cc

15 January, 2011 09:15
Casey Gibbs said...

I think this is the 1st one i can recall. I worked for Beverly and Charlie when he had bought a Zebra that they put in the act. The toughest animal i have ever worked with. He also Kicked balls lots of fun.

15 January, 2011 15:48
Roger Smith said...

CC: Buckles ran one long ago, with Charlie and Beverly much earlier in their career. When I first got to Jungleland, the Allens were already on DR. DOLITTLE with their bears. I got my first 6 weeks on the picture in October '66, during the circus sequences, shot at Disney's Golden Oaks Ranch, in Placerita Canyon. Sure enough, some of our animal guys went Hollywood and became "movie types" in terms of ego. Never Charlie Allen. He was good showfolks, and a pal from the beginning. We used to shoot the mountains to Malibu, cook hot dogs and drink beer and sleep on the beach, leaving our wives at home. Later, when Charlie teamed with Charles Germain to create Miller-Johnson Circus, I took the lions out for them, and served as Ringmaster/Announcer, with Charlie Allen brokering my deal. I was out three times with them for brief West Coast tours of ten days to three weeks, then return home to Thousand Oaks. Germain was a complicated guy, with delusions of being John Ringling. But the Allens were true circus and wonderful friends, very dearly missed.

15 January, 2011 18:27
J C Hall said...

When working on a show when we were kids seams like every time while playing around Carlie Allen's daughter Kay would fall off of something and break her arm she was a great kid though accident prone.

15 January, 2011 21:28

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