Sunday, July 01, 2018

CIRCUS ELITE VISITORS


8 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Harold "Tuffy" Genders

Victoria "La Toria" "Vicki" Unus

Bob Dover with daughter Michelle

Antoinette Concello

Chic Silber said...


Michelle is the daughter of

Bob with his 2nd wife Kveta

She was born in 1970 & lives

in North Port with her husband

Kveta later married Mickey

Antalek who died in 1984

She is remarried & lives in

Venice where Big Bertha was

encamped from 1960 foe some

30 odd years or so

Chic Silber said...


Viewed from I-4 that enormous

striped structure reminded me

of a Colonel Sanders warehouse

jack said...

What Northport does Michelle, Bob Dover's daughter live in?

Is it Northport here on Long Island, NY?

He was always good to me.

Chic Silber said...


Michelle's married name is Blackwell

She lives in North Port Florida Jack

Not very far South of Venice

Kveta tortured Bob by making it hard

for him to see his daughter which

added to his depression

jack said...

Always remember Mary Jane Miller telling me he just started walking down the road one day and just walked out of sight.

Chic Silber said...


I last saw Bob in the spring of 74

He was visiting "Circus America" at

the new Capitol Center Arena near

Washington DC in Landover Maryland

Abe Polen who built the joint had

been friends with Irvin & Isreal

for many years & had an agreement

for Ringling to open the new arena

That deal got screwed up by Earl

Duryea a hotshot they hired to

improve building contracts who

thought he could outsmart Polen

when the whole shebang blew up

Polen hired Paul Kaye & Jack

Leontini to assemble a show to

outdo & day & date Ringling's

Spring DC date in the Armory

Wow what a show it was indeed

That story for another time

Bob was asked to leave due to

his strange behavior & stayed

wandering the backyard with

his shoes in his hand very

sad indeed & then disappeared

Much has been guessed since

Chic Silber said...


It is very likely that he

committed suicide in 1979

His name was Bill Rosenthal