Previously we had run pictures of Lou Jacobs, Paul Jung and Charlie Bell on boxes of Sugar Smacks in the early half of the 1950s. The adver...

Not Frank "Slivers" Oakley. Not Spader Johnson. It's Slivers Johnson . Your guess is as good as mine. Speaking of Slivers Oakl...

Pee Wee Pettee, Cincinnati, Ohio Shrine Circus 1954.

Who says there are no good photos of Otto Griebling and a bassett hound with a hangover?!?

Another shot of Natt Litt. For more on Natt check out our previous post at... http://greatcircusclownsofthepast.blogspot.com/2006/05/ringli...

From the Bill Strong Collection... Bill Bailey. How sick and tired do you think he got of people singing that song to him, or asking him wh...

From the Bill Strong Collection... Jack Kennedy. With a name like that, I bet this guy worked pretty solidly from 1960 to 1963! Visit Bill ...

Two more from contributor Dave Powell... Here is his Dad, "Buzzy", on the LE Barnes Circus in Spartanburg, SC in 2001. Here is Buz...

Former Ringling Blue Unit Boss Clown Tom Parrish applying his makeup and posing with his better half, Tammy.

I was told the other day that longtime Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Advance Clown and Producing Clown Dean "Elmo Gibb" Chambers and Ch...

YA-HOO! Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls... WE ARE BACK! The viruses that had plagued both the blog and my computer have been fixed a...

Today's photos come to us through the courtesy of the Dave Powell collection... First we have Jojo Lewis with some pals in the backyard...

I'm back blogging from the public library with a handful of floppy discs. We'll see what works. Be sure to thank Five Dimes Casino ...

I apologize for the blog being down all weekend. We were hit by an online casino spammer who did not take kindly to my email requesting that...

Bernie Kallman and Jimmy James Plott (with an unidentified woman with crazy abs of steel) wearing drag nurse outfits that I've been told...

Bernie with two guys. I'm going to guess from the outfit that the fella in the middle is Dave Hoover many, many years before I met him.

A collection of clowns from the Ringling alley of the late 50s: (clockwise from lower left) Pre-Periwinkle Productions, Circus Report contri...

The one and only...Albert "Flo" White.

Someone out there had asked for a photo of Mike Bourbon the other day. Here he is with the lovely Dagmar.

This swami is none other than the DONIKERMAN himself, Mike Martin.