#circuslegends

#Repost @thegrandgypsy @ringling is making its comeback so I’d like to share this historical photo of The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Company taken 90 years ago this week in Brooklyn, New York on May 14,1932. Author, Ottavio Gesmundo in black tuxedo standing next to Bombayo in the first photo. Second photo features circus star Alfredo Codona and soon to be wife Vera Bruce on left side of the drum. Right side of the drum features the Wallenda family. More great stories and photographs available in the award winning paperback, eBook, and audiobook at www.TheGrandGypsy.com #CircusHistory #CircusFamily #CircusLegends #CircusRoyalty #CircusEveryDamnDay #TheGrandGypsy #CircusMemoir #Travelogue #WritersDigestHonorableMention #HofferAward #Circus #Circo #Cirque #Zirkus (at Brooklyn, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cdxs_Q0KJqX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Wonderful to see my aunt Aurelia Canestrelli Nock & cousin @michelangelo_nock at opening night with @mrswindlestravelingpeculiarium #CircusFamily #CircusLegends #MrSwindle #TheGrandGypsy #Circus #Cirque #Circo #Zirkus #VarietyEntertainment #VarietyShow (at Englewood, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7JIcAbg3t1/?igshid=1d6ijru7tyy4z

Happy Birthday uncle Freddy and Happy World Circus Day! Cover photo of Fred Canestrelli and wife Ortans Canestrelli/Cristiani with their world class rolla bolla act. Uncle Freddy also created the best trampoline act in the world - winner of the prestigious Silver Clown Award at Monte Carlo Circus Festival and multiple GuinnessBook World Records and Ed Sullivan Show appearances. #WorldCircusDay #CircusHistory #GuinnessWorldRecords #CircusRoyalty #CircusLegends #Trampoline #MonteCarlo #TheGrandGypsy (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwfdZjBgmQO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hehr5ef8l53

#CircusHistory Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Company in Stamford, Connecticut June 26, 1933. My grandfather, and author of #TheGrandGypsy , Ottavio Canestrelli, far left second row is sporting a turban. Either Federico or Gino Canestrelli is seated first row left with another troupe member. Just behind them is bounding rope sensation Bombayo. I think Herma (Federico’s wife) is standing next to Bambayo and behind him is his wife Filomena. #CircusLegends www.thegrandgypsy.com

#CircusHistory Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus Company in Stamford, Connecticut June 26, 1933. My grandfather, and author of #TheGrandGypsy , Ottavio Canestrelli, far left second row is sporting a turban. Either Federico or Gino Canestrelli is seated first row left with another troupe member. Just behind them is bounding rope sensation Bombayo. I think Herma (Federico’s wife) is standing next to Bambayo and behind him is his wife Filomena. #CircusLegends www.thegrandgypsy.com

#wbw This photo was taken in 1974 at The Circus Hall of Fame when I was nine years old and I think it was the last time I performed in Sarasota, Florida! My godfather, Alfredo Landone, and I were presented with these awards, which were clown statue/whiskey bottles. One of the coolest things from my childhood and I’m sick that I don’t have it anymore. By the way, that’s Circus legend Carl Wallenda standing behind me. But now (forty four years later) I’m performing at @theringling Museum’s Summer Circus Spectacular with @circusartssrq What a thrill. #WayBackWednesday #Circus #CircusArts #CircusMuseums #TheRingling #CircusHallOfFame #Cirque #Circo #Zirkus #Clowns #CircusHistory #CircusLegends #CircusEveryDamnDay #CircusTalk #TheGrandGypsy (at Sarasota, Florida)

Amazing to be with my Aunt Aurelia and cousin @michelangelo_nock @nervelessnocks before the Circus Ceremony tomorrow for my mother @theringling and seeing Tony Steele (who taught me how to juggle) at Showfolks. #CircusLegends #CircusHistory (at The Showfolks Of Sarasota)

Happy World Circus Day from the Circus City! #Sarasota #WorldCircusDay #CircusLegends. (at Sarasota, Florida)