Saturday, February 10, 2007

Glen "Kinko" Sunberry on the Gil Gray Circus 1950s



Glen "Kinko" Sunberry performing his midget car entrance and the contortion act with a barrel that he performed first in vaudeville and then in circuses beginning in the 20s and going all the way up to the late 60s.

I don't know what became of his "Squat Car" but the barrel was purchased by Bill Ballentine after Kinko retired and brought to Clown College in Venice, FL.

In 1974 Lou Jacobs gave it to Mitch Freddes, who has performed with it ever since using it on the Ringling Gold (Hometown) Unit as recently as just a few years ago.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Kinko's son who lives in N. Ca. has toldm me many great stories of his dad and mom (Mary, a trapeeze performer). Also he has many great pictures of early circus acts.

Pat Cashin said...

Tim,

PLEASE send me an email at cashincomedy@yahoo.com!

Thanks,
Pat