Kinko and partner Florenz were on the Clyde Beatty Circus Unit, after leaving Robbins Bros. at the close of 1938. The team went with the Beattys to the Steel Pier for 1939, then remained with them for the duration of their Jungle Zoo, in Ft. Lauderdale. I last saw Kinko on RBBB in the '60s.
Jonathan "Mitch" Freddes has the barrel. He found it in the prop department while we were in Clown College in 1974. I don't know if he still has it, I would guess he does.
Kinko was an Albino. Later in his career he was working some independent dates and well-known Ringmaster Charley Van Buskirk would drive Kinko's car overland. Being an Albino Kinko had poor eye sight. Charley told me this information about 20 years ago.
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Doesn't someone on this Blog have Kinko's barrel?
Ole Whitey,
The last I heard one of the girls from the 1976 Clown Colleg class had it
Kinko and partner Florenz were on the Clyde Beatty Circus Unit, after leaving Robbins Bros. at the close of 1938. The team went with the Beattys to the Steel Pier for 1939, then remained with them for the duration of their Jungle Zoo, in Ft. Lauderdale. I last saw Kinko on RBBB in the '60s.
Jonathan "Mitch" Freddes has the barrel. He found it in the prop department while we were in Clown College in 1974.
I don't know if he still has it, I would guess he does.
This looks like Kinko in the photo. Just a guess.
Kinko was an Albino. Later in his career he was working some independent dates and well-known Ringmaster Charley Van Buskirk would drive Kinko's car overland. Being an Albino Kinko had poor eye sight. Charley told me this information about 20 years ago.
Mike, to my knowledge, your information is entirely correct.
Jackie LeClaire
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