Monday, March 30, 2020

AERIALIST #11


Posted by Chic Silber at 3/30/2020 09:58:00 AM

6 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Gayle DeRizkie Barnes

30 March, 2020 21:41
Roger Smith said...

Married to Harold Barnes, of whom it was widely agreed brought world-class to the tightwire.

31 March, 2020 01:34
Chic Silber said...


The Barnes family operated

a tremendous canvas business

which built many circus tops

The original Sailor Circus

here in Sarasota worked with

a Barnes rental big top

Dave Hoover's wife Lois was

a sister to Harold Barnes

31 March, 2020 10:05
Chic Silber said...


Gayle's brother Frank Pealer

was General Manager on Vargas

many years ago

31 March, 2020 10:07
Chic Silber said...


1 of Gayle's sisters Lucy

was married to Bobby Snowden

31 March, 2020 10:08
Joe Holmes said...

I knew Gayle's sister Francine when she lived in Muncy, PA, in the 1950s and 60s. Francine was a friend of my mother, and through my mother I learned of Francine's earlier days as an aerialist with the DeRizkie troupe.

07 March, 2021 21:24

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