Don_Dickle to Today I LearnedEnglish • 4 months 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-square14arrow-up1160arrow-down14
arrow-up1156arrow-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 to Today I LearnedEnglish • 4 months agomessage-square14
minus-square@ulkeshlinkEnglish7•4 months agoI still would have owned the ball in the buckets Grand Prize Game. If only I lived in Chicago and given the chance.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•4 months 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 SquidlinkEnglish3•4 months 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-square@RolandolinkEnglish1•4 months 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: