Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoTIL that the original Bozo the Clown(1946) Pinto Colvig, had a son, Vance Colvig Jr., who landed the job of Bozo in the first local TV station to franchise the character in 1959.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down14
arrow-up1151arrow-down1external-linkTIL that the original Bozo the Clown(1946) Pinto Colvig, had a son, Vance Colvig Jr., who landed the job of Bozo in the first local TV station to franchise the character in 1959.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareulkesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·14 days agoI still would have owned the ball in the buckets Grand Prize Game. If only I lived in Chicago and given the chance.
minus-squareHuckledebuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 days agoYep, every kid that missed out on the brand new crisp one hundred dollar bill was a scrub and it should’ve been mine.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 days agoOne hundred dollar bill? It was a fifty dollar bill when I was a kid! Damn inflation. (Also, that was not Pinto Colvig’s Bozo. The original WGN Bozo was Bob Bell. He was replaced by Joey D’Auria in the mid-80s.)
minus-squareHuckledebuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·13 days agoYeah, that was in the 80s.
minus-squareRolando@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agowow according to the article: Chicago’s Bozo’s Circus … had a waiting list for studio tickets that eventually reached ten years.
I still would have owned the ball in the buckets Grand Prize Game. If only I lived in Chicago and given the chance.
Yep, every kid that missed out on the brand new crisp one hundred dollar bill was a scrub and it should’ve been mine.
One hundred dollar bill? It was a fifty dollar bill when I was a kid! Damn inflation.
(Also, that was not Pinto Colvig’s Bozo. The original WGN Bozo was Bob Bell. He was replaced by Joey D’Auria in the mid-80s.)
Yeah, that was in the 80s.
wow according to the article: