Just another sad Circus moment. He was a beautiful creature and I am sad to learn of his passing. Even as a Circus Fan, if you see performers, be they human or animal, you feel over time that you knew them and when they leave you feel a sense of loss and a bit of emptiness. Remembering Anna May, Congo, Bear Paw, Bruno (Welde), Munchie and others.
Among my chief memories of the War Memorial Coliseum, in Ft Wayne, was going in there with Castle, in '72. The previous year, Bert and Marie Pettus had lost their son, Lee, in that building. They went to wake him in his sleeper, and he had died during the night.
Jimmy Hall will remember the building manager, Don--I'd give his last name if I had it handy--made Hubert give him a large case of high-end booze if he wanted to keep the show animals inside. This was the basement, far from the prying public, but Don threatened to make us leave the animals out in the bitter Indiana snows unless Castle came across. If you knew Castle, he detested locals demanding pay-offs, but in Ft. Wayne, he paid.
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I thought this act had a lion in it but in this and past pictures their isn't one? Did they take it out?
Casey
Larry the Cable Guy will be on the History Channel tonight (8:00 central) with a tie in with the Ringling show.
p.j.
He's with the Misers.
This act is headed for Cole Brothers this year.
This act came from John Cuneo.
Trevor Boswell,whom I recommended to John, built the two,very large,circular objects in the middle of the ring.
They both revolve and go up and down.
Casey
I think they are replacing the lion with a Duck billed Platypus many do not think this is going to be an upgrade???
But Jimmy if it can jump from
1 revolving water tank through
the fire hoop into another tank
that would be really something
The biggest problem I can see
is that the creature is so small
that only a few of the ringside
seats will be have a view of it
Maybe they need to think again
Perhaps a walrus might do
who are the Misers? Do they have a cage act? Is the Cuneo lion with them now?
When asked, John Cuneo told me last fall that the male lion in the Nergers' cage act had died of cancer. -- Bill Hall
Just another sad Circus moment. He was a beautiful creature and I am sad to learn of his passing. Even as a Circus Fan, if you see performers, be they human or animal, you feel over time that you knew them and when they leave you feel a sense of loss and a bit of emptiness. Remembering Anna May, Congo, Bear Paw, Bruno (Welde), Munchie and others.
Paul Gutheil
Among my chief memories of the War Memorial Coliseum, in Ft Wayne, was going in there with Castle, in '72. The previous year, Bert and Marie Pettus had lost their son, Lee, in that building. They went to wake him in his sleeper, and he had died during the night.
Jimmy Hall will remember the building manager, Don--I'd give his last name if I had it handy--made Hubert give him a large case of high-end booze if he wanted to keep the show animals inside. This was the basement, far from the prying public, but Don threatened to make us leave the animals out in the bitter Indiana snows unless Castle came across. If you knew Castle, he detested locals demanding pay-offs, but in Ft. Wayne, he paid.
JIMMY was that guy's name Don Sandman?
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