Brother Bill, in the clown make-up, used to take his miniature circus to different events.This was the first time and of course I had to help. This was in 1959 and we both were Juniors in High School. He appeared at many local events on the Eastern Shore and of course his display kept growing bigger and bigger. He loved to tell folks the history of the circus and helped many shows that came through our area get some extra publicity. One time Art Miller was booking on of the corporations shows, King Bros or Sells & Gray, and Bill had dinner with him. He was known at have remarked that Bill knew more about circus history than he ever forgot. That was quite a compliment comming from an old time agent.
Do you still have his model circus?
ReplyDeleteMost of it is gone. I do have some figures and i also started a corgi chipperfields collection.
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