THIS BLOG IS DEDICATED TO MY TWIN BROTHER, BILL DYKES (1943-1995). WE WERE NOT ONLY BROTHERS BUT PARTNERS IN BUSINESS AND BEST FRIENDS!AND TO ALL THE "BUTCHERS" THAT HAVE PASSED ON TO THE BIG LOT IN THE SKY!
Well Today is the last day at Bloomsburg. Bill and I spent many pleasant years playing this fair and have a lot of friends that live in Bloomsburg and have stands at the fair. So as kind of a salute to the BLOOMSBUG FAIR I it was only apporiate to present a day of posts from the fair. I hope you enjoy them and if you will start down at part 1 and work your way up to part 4. Thanks, Dick
NEW!Rosaire-Zoppe Chimpanzees3 performances daily The most respected and largest chimpanzee ensemble in the entertainment world. The Rosaire-Zoppe chimps represent eight generations of animal trainers and performers respected worldwide for their animal presentations. They have been featured at Disneyland, The Tonight Show, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey, Shrine Circuses and major rodeos. You will be truly amazed with their antics as well as the world’s only trick and fancy horseback riding chimp. Ride’em cowchimp!
In later years Bill and I became friends with Lee Bradley and his wife Hazel on the Hoxie Show in 1961. Lee had the side show and He and His wife Hazel presented a riding mechanic/bare back act in the main show. Later on Hazel had age & weight stands.
A Preview of Ringling's New Layout
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This is what the "re-imagined" layout will look like when the reborn
Ringling comes to an arena near you.
The Felds released it through AP.
Its graphic...
Ideal route EMR – What exactly is it?
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Whats the Ideal route EMR in your follow to choose to fulfill and fulfill
every...
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The Days of Noah
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* By now my nephew, Noah has had a couple of good nights sleep at his home
in Florida. He flew out from Minneapolis with his sisters, April and Lana
earl...
"LADY! Get your kid!"
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Hi, everyone, Steve Copeland here. Well, the time is almost upon us; in
just a couple of days Circus World’s 2017 summer season will be just a
memory. It ...
Day 158, 71 to go
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The world is in that backward place. I never thought people ( mostly men)
would try and overturn Roe V Wade. I never thought the Planned Parenthood ,
a gr...
Shooting star (Patrick Berta, 1964-1993.)
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August 11, Columbia.
My brother Patrick died twenty-two years ago today on the wings of a
shooting star.
He was twenty-nine years young and bold and crazy,...
Mickey Mouse Circus
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Family Entertainment On The Midway With The Mickey Mouse Circus One of the
most popular shows on the midway was the “Mickey Mouse Circus”. The name
was s...
Washington Park Children's Zoo - Indianapolis
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Indianapolis' first zoo opened in 1964 and exhibited animals until its
closure and subsequent transfer to a new site in 1988. This facility first
exhibited...
ATLANTA BOOTLEGGERS
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Atlanta Bootleggers
I was working on the Cristiani Wallace Circus in the early sixties and we
were playing around North Georgia. It was a Saturday night i...