Bill sent this photo of a clown with some of the lovely ladies of Ringling-Barnum 1946. The young woman in the front row, right side is Evel...

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong Bill had this picture of an unidentified clown from Ringling 1952. It looks to me like Eddie Dullam. The littl...

Photo courtesy of Bill Strong The pretty girl is Ninette Theron Parker of the Fabulous Theron Family Bicycle Act. The clown is Gene Randow, ...

An unidentified clown (I can't imagine who this would be), two elephants, the smaller of which was named Baby John and a really striking...

Ben Vereen, who to the best of my knowledge has never made disparaging remarks about clowns, outside the Alley in the Venice Arena surrounde...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Dick Slaton, Frankie Saluto and Harold Ronk. I was sorry to hear from some...

100th Edition Ringling Blue Show 1970: I'm not positive of the ID of the young Clown College grad emerging from the Lou Jacobs-style car...

I believe I've posted this photo before but now we have an exact date for this early version of James "Jimmy James" Plott'...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk An undated photo of Master Clown and International Clown Hall of Fame indu...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Lester and Stanley Janus in the 100th edition Blue Unit show in 1970. ...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk The assembled Clown Alley of the 1976 106th edition Blue Unit of the Ringl...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Clown prince of the 106th edition, Mark Anthony seen here kicking out the ...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk 106th Edition Advance Clown, Gale Lajoye. I was in Irowood or Iron Mountai...

Photos courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Keith Crary, Lou Jacobs, Irvin Feld, Harold Ronk and Michu with two unide...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey literally throwing Harold Ronk'...

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Harold Ronk, two unidentfied men and Otto Griebling

Photo courtesy of Robin Estes, from the Estate of Mr. Harold Ronk Otto Griebling, unidentified, Paul Jung and Harold Ronk, 1964

From the Colgate Comedy Hour: Jerry Lewis' typewriter bit, the type of "record act" that he was doing in nightclubs before tea...

Garden Variety Clown by my pal, Cowboy Mike Click the title of this post to link to the Cel-ebration Art Gallery in Red Bank, NJ and find ou...

Charlie Rivel in Vienna 1940, the moment just before he yells, "Hey you dang kids! Get off of my lawn!" ; ) If you could judge a c...