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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 774829" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Thank you Alison. Our lunch went great. I did the cooking and he broke out some fig/grape preserves that were out of this world. I spent several hours with him and he asked me to come back again that it was good to talk to someone. I told him I'd be back and I think this will be a promise easily kept. I just wish he could pour his knowledge into my dim whitted skull.</p><p></p><p>Alacattlman, I didn't see your post till after the fact but the munchkins' names were Eddie, Christie and Lida Buresh from Czechoslovakia. They were the singers in the Wizard of Oz.</p><p></p><p>Here is some of his talent. He made this out of a 2 litre coke bottle. The slightest wind will spin the bottle but the bird stays stationary. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4443.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>This is some more of his talent.</p><p></p><p>He stuffed these birds 40 years ago.</p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4461.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>The robin is 40 years old too but the deer antler figurines are recent work.</p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4456.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>This is a picture of him when he was young and owned a zoo in Florida.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4458.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here they are feeding a python they brought in for the zoo. They are feeding it a dozen eggs and some other stuff I forgot.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4445.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here is a picture of his wife holding up three people with one arm.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4448.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>Here is another picture of his wife. She could hold this pose for an hour or so.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4453.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>These are some pieces of her equipment for one of her acts. This is a tether rope that was attached to a swivel that went to a mouth piece all shown. Another acrobat would loop their hand through the tether and she would hold the other acrobat with the tether attached into her mouth via the mouth piece and they would swing 120 feet off the ground with no net.(middle thing is a leather mouth piece)</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4457.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>She fell once from 100 feet and broke her back and was laid up for 2 years. She trained again and went back to doing what she did but from that day on she always made her own tether straps. Here is the knife she used to cut the rope. He is redoing the handle. </p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4459.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>After she retired from trapeze they went into business making leather goods. Here is some of their handywork. Probably not politcally correct today but the alligator leatherwork he showed me looked really nice.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4447.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I may need to correct what I said yesterday. Her record isn't for one arm pull ups but one armed plandge which is where you lift your whole body over your hand with one arm. She did 382 of these.</p><p></p><p>Quite a nice visit and very interesting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 774829, member: 4362"] Thank you Alison. Our lunch went great. I did the cooking and he broke out some fig/grape preserves that were out of this world. I spent several hours with him and he asked me to come back again that it was good to talk to someone. I told him I'd be back and I think this will be a promise easily kept. I just wish he could pour his knowledge into my dim whitted skull. Alacattlman, I didn't see your post till after the fact but the munchkins' names were Eddie, Christie and Lida Buresh from Czechoslovakia. They were the singers in the Wizard of Oz. Here is some of his talent. He made this out of a 2 litre coke bottle. The slightest wind will spin the bottle but the bird stays stationary. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4443.jpg[/img] This is some more of his talent. He stuffed these birds 40 years ago. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4461.jpg[/img] The robin is 40 years old too but the deer antler figurines are recent work. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4456.jpg[/img] This is a picture of him when he was young and owned a zoo in Florida. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4458.jpg[/img] Here they are feeding a python they brought in for the zoo. They are feeding it a dozen eggs and some other stuff I forgot. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4445.jpg[/img] Here is a picture of his wife holding up three people with one arm. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4448.jpg[/img] Here is another picture of his wife. She could hold this pose for an hour or so. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4453.jpg[/img] These are some pieces of her equipment for one of her acts. This is a tether rope that was attached to a swivel that went to a mouth piece all shown. Another acrobat would loop their hand through the tether and she would hold the other acrobat with the tether attached into her mouth via the mouth piece and they would swing 120 feet off the ground with no net.(middle thing is a leather mouth piece) [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4457.jpg[/img] She fell once from 100 feet and broke her back and was laid up for 2 years. She trained again and went back to doing what she did but from that day on she always made her own tether straps. Here is the knife she used to cut the rope. He is redoing the handle. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4459.jpg[/img] After she retired from trapeze they went into business making leather goods. Here is some of their handywork. Probably not politcally correct today but the alligator leatherwork he showed me looked really nice. [img]http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m114/jogeephus/Circus/IMG_4447.jpg[/img] I may need to correct what I said yesterday. Her record isn't for one arm pull ups but one armed plandge which is where you lift your whole body over your hand with one arm. She did 382 of these. Quite a nice visit and very interesting. [/QUOTE]
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