Buckles Blog: Ring Of Fear Performance #30 (From Eric Beheim)

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Ring Of Fear Performance #30 (From Eric Beheim)

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...: Herbie Weber; 21 August, 2011 07:44
Bob Cline said...: Was this Herbie Weber?; 21 August, 2011 08:09
Harry Kingston said...: Herbie's act was a crowd pleaser and his music was the best.
That a tiskit a taskit and so on.
He was with Hanneford when he came into town and we did a tv story on him.
He told usd all about those bird like shoes he had on his slide for life and that shot gun ending.
One that was with it and for it till the end.
Harry in Texas; 21 August, 2011 10:52
Anonymous said...: What a trouper. I was around Herbie for five seasons. We would put up the marquee on Uncle Sid's, and from the first day I helped him, he was thrilled that I could hit the stake with the hammer! And as his ads in Circus Report for "Los Latinos" use to read "Where were you?".
Erik Jaeger; 21 August, 2011 10:59
Buckles said...: And all this time I thought it was The Lost Latinos.; 21 August, 2011 11:17
Anonymous said...: The Great Huberto and Maricela!; 21 August, 2011 16:26
Roger Smith said...: No, anon, this is not Maricela.

Herbie's partner depicted here is Chatita, of the Escalante Circus family, whom he married on the Al. G. Barnes Circus on September 16, 1936. They were married 50 years, until her death following a long illness, on December 3, 1986, in Riverside, California.

Herbert Eugene Weber was born in Ney, Ohio, on May 17, 1914. He performed tightwire as Los Latinos Duo, and slide-for-life as The Great Huberto and later as Chief Thundercloud, for more than 60 years. A year after the death of Chatita, he married Maricela Sanchez Hernandez in Las Vegas, on December 2, 1987, and a second time in an elaborate family wedding in Mexico City, on February 21, 1988. They booked as partners for 24 seasons.

On December 8, 1991, in Seagoville, Texas, Herbie was walking across Donnie Johnson's winterquarters to practice, when he died suddenly at 77. He is interred in Mt. Olivet Showman's Rest, in Hugo, Oklahoma. At the time, he was survived by Maricela, Herbie, Jr., three grandchildren, and numerous family members of Ohio.

Herbie was buried in his wardrobe, with circus music in soft accompaniment.; 21 August, 2011 20:47
Anonymous said...: A fitting tribute to a real trouper, thank you Roger. ~frank; 22 August, 2011 10:58

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