Friday, August 27, 2010

From Bill Powell #7


1973-15-3 circus days, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Another photo from Gee Gee Blond Bombshell Archives.

5 comments:

Bill Powell said...

I think this photo of me working the elephant cougar act was taken on Gatti Charles circus in California around 1970.

The California tour was great. We played one to three day stands in hight school ball parks football fields starting in LA and going north to Oregon.

During this time I also worked in an act called: Congo the almost Human Gorilla.

The act was patterned after Norbu and I recall making a princely sum of 25.00 per week to scare families by running up into the audience. The blow off of the act was a forward somersault a couple cart wheels as the head came off with a big TA DA ...human revealed.

No pictures exist of my exploits as Congo as the innocent have to be protected.

Bill

Chic Silber said...

Bill the only discrepency I find

with your story is in regards to

the word "innocent" nice try

I doubt either of us could get

away with such a claim

Buckles said...

Bill, while reading your comments regarding the Almost Human Gorilla act, I was tempted to quote Smokey, "Show me the pictures".
But alas, none exist.

Chic Silber said...

As they say Buckles

Be careful what you wish for

Bill might just surprise us all

Maybe it was a Phillip Morris

"better" gorilla outfit

Bill Powell said...

ok I will show you some of the pictures and tell the story.

i will submit them to buckles referencing this blog comment link.