Billy and Benny McCrary were the world's heaviest twins, at 743 and 723 pounds
Here's the picture that started everything!
Discovered by a photographer from Life magazine, Billy and Benny McCrary were the world's heaviest twins, at 743 and 723 pounds with 84 inch waists. They went for show biz with their newly found notoriety and appeared in Vegas where they played trumpets and told jokes with 400-pound go-go dancers. Then they made a splash on the sporting scene as tag team wrestlers and mini-bike riders doing daredevil stunts in cowboy outfits. Sensing too much of a good thing, Billy died of injuries after a mini-bike stunt gone wrong in Niagara Falls. In mourning, Benny erected the world's largest granite gravestone (yet another superlative), 13 feet wide and weighing three tons, etched with their beloved mini-bikes, on view today in The Cemetery at Crab Creek Baptist Church outside Hendersonville, North Carolina. Benny himself died of heart failure in March of 2001, at the age of 54
Michigan State University professor Charles Boas says farewell to his economic geography class before starting new career as circus clown.Location: East Lansing, MI, US Date taken: May 1961
Former college professor turned circus performer, Charles Boas and his family, at their trailer home in winter quarters which they share with a friendly donkey.Location: US Date taken: March 1961 Photographer: Francis Miller
Veteran clown Jimmy O'Donnell reading funny papers to Toby Boas, son of college professor Charles "Onions" Boas.Location: US Date taken: March 1961 Photographer: Francis Miller
Former college professor Charles Boas performing as a circus clown.Location: South Fulton, TN, US Date taken: May 1961 Photographer: Francis Miller
Former college professor Charles Boas performing as circus clown "Onions" launching skunk-carrying rocket from "Cape Clownaveral."Location: Scottsboro, AL, US Date taken: March 1961 Photographer: Francis Miller
Heres a few pics of the Brandon Circus... Its a family affair as many circuses are in Mexico, theres probably about 150 to 200 one ring family circuses traveling year round in Mexico.The Brandon Circus is opening here on New Years Day for a week stand, I'll send more pics later. Bob
