1947 DETROIT SHRINE CIRCUS (FROM HART SMITH)

Here's a shot of the 1947 Shrine Circus in Detroit. I'm sorry is isn't sharper, but my scanner doesn't do its best with 35mm slidestaken under poor lighting conditions. Hart

HENDRICKS BROS. CIRCUS 1ST SEASON #1

I'm not sure of the date on these but I beleive it's the first season Bob Childress Toured the show. This is not the first year. I painted and clowned the first two years. This is probably the third year. John Mowder

Thank You John

HENDRICKS BROS. CIRCUS 1ST SEASON #2

EASTERN STATES EXPO 1999

Don't forget "Click on picture to enlarge" (Amusement Business Magazine, Dec. 27, 1999)

BALLOON PEDDLERS (LAS VEGAS, 1999)

(Amusement Business Magazine, Dec. 27, 1999)

(More to come)

LITTLE RICHARD & IV (ATLANTA TRADE SHOW 1999)

(Amusement Business Magazine, Dec 27, 1999)

DELAWARE COUNTY FAIR, WALTON, NY AUGUST 17-22

WIRE WALKING PREIST--ZIPPO'S CIRCUS

SUNDAY MORNING SPECIAL--

PRIEST WALKS THE HIGH WIRE AT ZIPPOS CIRCUS (FROM CIRCUSVERN)

Published: 1:15PM BST 13 Aug 2009 London Telegraph

Chico Marinhos, right, a high wire walker, is followed by local priest Father Jerome Lloyd, as they walk across a wire.

Photo: AFP Father Lloyd was meant to be carried along the rope on the back of a circus performer to re-enact a stunt by French wire walker Charles Blondin, who walked along a tightrope across the Niagara Falls with his manager on his back in 1859. But, after the tight rope walker was unable to lift him, the trick had to be adapted. The priest, who weighs 12.5st (80kg), said Chico Marinhos, a high wire walker with Zippos Circus, was unable to stand up once he was on his shoulders as he had nothing to lever himself up with from his position on top of the Big Top. Father Lloyd, who was raising money for charity, said there was nothing else they could do other than for him to walk across the rope himself, holding on to the high wire walker's shoulders as he crossed it in front of him. He said of the stunt, which was carried out where the touring circus is currently performing in Hove, East Sussex: ''It did actually feel fine. I wasn't really at all nervous as I'm not actually scared of heights. ''The only thing I was concerned about was I was worried that I would make Chico nervous.'' Father Lloyd, 43, a missionary priest from the National Catholic Apostolic Church, carried out the stunt wearing his traditional soutane and saturno. He was raising money for the Sussex Beacon charity, which provides specialist care and support for people living with HIV. In June Mr Marinhos, who originates from Columbia, carried out another of Blondin's stunts by walking along the high wire and cooking himself an omelette halfway across.

L E BARNES CIRCUS ELEPHANTS 2001 (CODICLOWN)

L E BARNES CIRCUS CANNON (CODICLOWN)

CARSON & BARNES-COLUMBUS, WI--8/13/09

Citizen Staff/Terri Pederson

Carson and Barnes Circus employees work together Thursday to put up the big tent before the show in Columbus. The European style tent takes six hours to put up and four hours to take down.

I also would like to add that was the Day "Good Morning America" ABC TV show

was there to tape a story that will air in October.