Sunday, December 15, 2013

GUNTHER #13



. . . provided many of us with our first opportunity to see Gunther perform. 

8 comments:

Eric said...

(When the Red Unit played San Diego in the summer of 1969, the elephants were still wearing the Circus Williams headpieces.)

Chic Silber said...


This is the ring curb patterm

that Vargas coppied but with the

slightly different diamonds

The diamonds were originally lit

Chic Silber said...


Obviously before they cleaned up

this image by shaving his hippy

chin whiskers & bleached his hair

This was wardobe from Germany

How different a short time later

Chic Silber said...


Just check the different look in

images #2 & #15

John Herriott said...

Yes Chic they had to supply own wardrobe. I never forget those funny big shoes GG wore

4pawfan said...

I remember watching Dom Ameche's International Showtime as a kid and wasn't he on the program (1961 to 1965) when they did the Circus Williams tapes?
p.j.

Eric said...

Gunther appears in the 1966 circus documentary RINGS AROUND THE WORLD, which was hosted by Don Ameche.

4pawfan said...

Thank you Eric for the information regarding the program and year. I have always called him Dom from hearing my grandparents calling him that. His real name was Dominic Felix Amici, and therefore "Dom". He started in vaudeville and may have used his legal name at that time before changing it to Don Ameche.