Franco Richard's Ring Bros Circus (Fred Hoffman)

Ring Bros was a small show owned by quite a character, Franco Richards, a reall old time showman. We happened to be with Franco on the Hoxie Show back in 1963. He could really tell some tall tales! The year before the Hoxie Show he took a small circus out west and Hoxie had to rescue Him as he was straned out in Arizona, I beleive. He did own a terriffic Elephant act, which Hoxie wound up with. That's a story in it self. The Elephant Trainer, Kenny Ikert came with the elephants. Kenny also happened to be a CPA.

I hope you enjoy these little tastes of the past.

One more tale I beleiv this was the year that Franco broke in the New Jersey Shore towns. I remember He played Ocean City, Md, when I was a Kid. The Show was billed Ring Bros. but when it left It was Richard's Bros Circus! This was in 1955.