Friday, May 29, 2009

Grotto Circus-15


Grotto Circus-16, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

My dad had his camera and flashgun along that day and managed to get a few Kodachrome color photos during the clown walk-around.

3 comments:

Dick Flint said...

Probably Dick "Rocko" Lewis.
Dick Flint
Baltimore

Barry said...

I'll second that. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Rocko the original clown at Circus World in Baraboo?

His makeup here looks a lot like Lou Jacobs would have if he had been a whiteface. Something I never new until Dolly showed me some old photos was that Lou actually started his clowning career as a whiteface. I don't know if he started developing the look that we all know today in Germany or after he came to the US.

Frank Ferrante said...

I believe that he started as a white face and that he used that face over here. I think Papa 'officially' made the switch to the face we all knew and loved sometime in the late 40's or early 50's. ~frank