Blinko, his wife Maran, and their much-used pressure cooker. Photo by Minneapolis Star photographer Charles Bjorgen.
Follow up to your
Ernie Burch photo--they always traveled with the pressure cooker and a trunk
full of utensils and a hot plate and cooked in their hotel rooms to save $$$.
Ernie + Maran were savers! Even 40 years ago, when a sandwich cost 50 cents.
Neither drove so they got over the road by bus or fellow circus folks--one
season, i drove them and Albert White in the Fall for 7+ weeks on Paul Kaye and
Texas dates--an experience.
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
From Jerry Digney
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Ernie was known as Blinko the clown professionally but to all who knew him he was Birdie Burch.Tanglefoot. PS that was the name he called me.
He called me "Roy Bush".
On second thought it was "Capt. Roy Bush".
I have placed 5 pics of Blinko and Maran on the haroldvoise blog from his estate...I didn't know about this clown act ... they were so interesting. As a kid I probably got a balloon compliments of Harold.
Craig Voise
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