Bozo's Circus

Bozo

Bozo's Circus

It's Bob Bell's Birthday today too!

Chicago Kid's books

Even as a kid, I was fascinated about how television shows were made. I was going through my stacks and stacks of Chicago Kid's TV stuff and came across these books. I checked them out of the library at Stony Creek School (Kindergarten-6th grade) repeatedly. These aren't the actual copies from my school. In Ray's book he says 400,000 people watched his show. Bozo's Circus, The Ray Rayner show, etc. were the biggest shows on the planet to me during that period. In Chicago, we had some amazing local TV! You had to be there to appreciate it. #wgntv #bozoscircus #therayraynershow #garfieldgooseandfriends #bjanddirtydragon

WGN had a great 2 hours on tonight!

They are re-broadcasting Sunday Feb, 24th at Noon!

February 17th at 7 PM WGN-TV

A two hour special featuring 1960's segments of Bozo's Circus will air Sunday February 17th!

Bob "Bozo" Bell and Higgins

Don Sandburg R.I.P.

 

"A Clown is the type of a guy, who gets hit in the face with a pie"  

I always admired Don's talent.  It seemed like he could do anything and had all the right ideas about things concerning Bozo's Circus, which I believe was at it's heights under his guidance.  He wrote songs, skits, scripts and wanted to keep Bob Bell's suit Red.  We have him to Thank for the surviving shows from fifty years ago.  Those tapes prove that they had magic in a bottle for a period. 

Bozo

Here is a cool, early shot of the great Bob Bell!

Courtesy of Lil' Ron Murphy

It's Bob Bell's Birthday!

I love clowns! Especially Bob Bell's Bozo!

WGN-TV BOZO'S CIRCUS 1960S HOME MOVIES / NEWSREEL FOOTAGE (My pal Mark Christiansen shared this with me)

BOZO'S CIRCUS

BOZO Tuesday!

from RON MURPHY

BOZO'S BIG TOP

I am watching my DVD of BOZO'S CIRCUS and BOZO'S BIG TOP from 1968 with commercials!

www.powsley.blogspot.com

from our Chicago Kid's book project