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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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WRIGHTS TENT SHOW (YEAR ?)


COLE ALL STAR CIRCUS (01.28.2010)

BMX rider Brett Marshall wowed the crowd Saturday afternoon when Billy Martin’s Cole All-Star Circus came to the Bloomfield High School gym.

Daily Messenger - Jan 28, 2008Bloomfield, N.Y. — Billy Martin’s Cole All-Star Circus wowed the crowd in the Bloomfield High School gym Saturday afternoon.
The circus headed to Honeoye on Saturday night and will be in Naples on Wednesday and Lyons on Sunday.

Another popular act was the father-son team of Vlasteck Bertinis and his 6-year-old boy, Vincent, who enjoyed the ride while his dad made his way around the ring on a unicycle.

Two local girls getting some souvenirs were Sarah VanEpps and Hannah Dewey, both 7 and of Bloomfield. The circus headed to Honeoye on Saturday night and will be in Naples on Wednesday and Lyons on Sunday.



Monday, February 22, 2010


JOE LEWIS--RINGLING CLOWN


TERRELL JACOBS 1949 CALENDER




FAMOUS COLE CIRCUS 1962 #3 (FROM JIM ELLIOTT)

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OF YOU COULD IDENTIFY SOME OF THESE FOLKS!
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MARTYN (FROM MIKE NAUGHTON)




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Saturday, February 20, 2010

CIRQUE du SOLEIL TENTS TO HAITI

(CNN) -- Several large circus tents previously used by Cirque du Soleil are on their way to Haiti to be used as a temporary headquarters for the Port-au-Prince government, according to the man donating them.
The self-contained tents would replace government buildings destroyed a month ago by the devastating earthquake that killed at least 200,000 people, Nevada real estate developer Tom Schrade said Thursday.

ELVIS IS BACK IN VEGAS ( MIKE NAUGHTON)



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