Popular Electricity and the World's Advance from 1913 has a great article describing KASSINO AND THE GIANT PHONE      Circus p...

International Women's Day is getting alot of attention this year, so I thought in honor of today I'd highlight a female pioneer w...

Here we have two newsreel clips of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey clowns entertaining the children at Bellevue Hospital, New ...

The following interview appeared in several newspapers across the country in early April of 1908.  I think it's interesting that a woma...

Courtesy of the Tennessee State Library & Archives There have been many African American clowns, but before Brian Wright, Jamarr Woo...

For those who do not know, Pat Cashin, the namesake and creator of this blog, passed away unexpectedly over six months ago.  His friends are...

Behold, the power of adaptation!  The following clips show the same two clowns doing virtually the same routine as part of two separate pro...

"Thus passes the glory of the world"-  these words are used to mark the passage of life onto the next phase, sort of a 'this t...

I will never forget the sense of joy, connection, excitement, and longing I felt when I saw my first circus clown.  Her name was Jennifer E...

On a very limited basis we will open up this blog for guest posts. If you would like to be considered to author an entry, please submit you...

Frankie Saluto on top at right; Buzzy Potts at left

Photo courtesy of Beth Anne Duze Woolley "Thought you might like this photo, my father took it at Madison Square Garden. My mother...

Kenneth L. Horsman, who performed as Ken-Zo the Clown in the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and later established a Sout...

Photo courtesy of John Towsen's ALL FALL DOWN

Thanks to the considerable efforts of Jeff Solimando at the Trentonian newspaper the final resting place of the legendary Ringling Bros....

Thank you to Billy Martin, the Royal Hanneford Circus and the Salaam Shrine, Clowns and Clown Alley for a great run at the Mennen Arena ...

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