+ azdr0710 Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 (yes, I realize my occasional "Today In History" posts are skewed toward disastrous fires.....) 100 were children....tent canvas coated with paraffin and gasoline for waterproofing.......arsonist confessed six years later..... for those familiar with Hartford, the site is now a small field behind Wish Elementary School on Barbour St in the North End.....a monument was installed on the site in 2005...... http://www.circusfire1944.com/ https://connecticuthistory.org/the-hartford-circus-fire/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hartford-circus-fire HoseMaster, Cooper, + Charlie and 2 others 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 Horrible. Though I knew Hartford, guess not. Very sad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 On the lighter side of “today in history…” Major League Baseball’s first All-Star Game is held + azdr0710, Cooper and + WilliamM 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted July 6, 2022 Share Posted July 6, 2022 (edited) Among those who survived the Hartford Circus fire was 13-year old Charles Nelson Reilly https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2007-05-29-0705290417-story.html BOZO Edited July 6, 2022 by BOZO T CLOWN + augustus, MikeBiDude, thomas and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 2 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said: Among those who survived the Hartford Circus fire was 13-year old Charles Nelson Reilly https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-xpm-2007-05-29-0705290417-story.html BOZO One of my favorites! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 I apologize beforehand... but... when I saw the topic headline my first thought was 'Did the tiny car catch fire, trapping all the clowns inside?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ BOZO T CLOWN Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 10 hours ago, BnaC said: One of my favorites! Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Lynde were both favorites of Bozo, as well as personal heros. Growing up as a young clown, I knew I was a little different, and I saw the same in Reilly and Lynde. Although I was too young to identify exactly what it was. Now as an adult, watching the reruns of Match Game and Hollywood Squares, their gay personas seem so obvious. How could I or anyone else have missed it back then. What a shame that they had to remain closeted to the public throughout their lives. How times have changed! BOZO + augustus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, BOZO T CLOWN said: Growing up as a young clown, I knew I was a little different, and I saw the same in Reilly and Lynde. Although I was too young to identify exactly what it was. Now as an adult, watching the reruns of Match Game and Hollywood Squares, their gay personas seem so obvious. How could I or anyone else have missed it back then. What a shame that they had to remain closeted to the public throughout their lives. Paul Lynde wasn't exactly butch when my mother, sister, aunt, & I saw him at the Westbury Music Fair (where my niece - my sister's daughter - graduated from high school in 2017!) with Waylon Flowers and Madame as the opening act. Madame wore her 'Penwah' outfit... she'd gotten it at JC Penwah. I don't recall seeing too many Hell's Angels in the crowd. Edited July 7, 2022 by samhexum just for the hell of it + augustus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 And Liberace Hardly a gay icon Liberace sued someone who called him a homosexual + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted July 7, 2022 Share Posted July 7, 2022 3 hours ago, BOZO T CLOWN said: Charles Nelson Reilly and Paul Lynde were both favorites of Bozo, as well as personal heros. Growing up as a young clown, I knew I was a little different, and I saw the same in Reilly and Lynde. Although I was too young to identify exactly what it was. Now as an adult, watching the reruns of Match Game and Hollywood Squares, their gay personas seem so obvious. How could I or anyone else have missed it back then. What a shame that they had to remain closeted to the public throughout their lives. How times have changed! BOZO I didn't miss it when I encountered Lynde in the Meatrack on Fire Island one night in the late 1960s. + azdr0710, + nycman, + WilliamM and 3 others 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted July 8, 2022 Share Posted July 8, 2022 On 7/7/2022 at 11:54 AM, WilliamM said: And Liberace Hardly a gay icon Liberace sued someone who called him a homosexual I seem to remember that after he died, Liberace's estate was sued and the complainant won damages (I think it was a British tabloid). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ azdr0710 Posted July 9, 2022 Author Share Posted July 9, 2022 various links for Liberace's suit in the 1950s..... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberace_v_Daily_Mirror https://www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/2013/jun/12/daily-mirror-liberace Kippy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kippy Posted July 9, 2022 Share Posted July 9, 2022 History is so damn interesting! + augustus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 There was a Summer tent theater in my Massachusetts town. Anthony Perkins, Ethel Merman and Liberace performed there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 2 hours ago, WilliamM said: There was a Summer tent theater in my Massachusetts town. Anthony Perkins, Ethel Merman and Liberace performed there Let me guess: Merman played Dorothy, Perkins was the Scarecrow and Liberace was Glinda the Good Witch. Who else was in the cast? + Travis69 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted July 12, 2022 Share Posted July 12, 2022 1 hour ago, samhexum said: Let me guess: Merman played Dorothy, Perkins was the Scarecrow and Liberace was Glinda the Good Witch. Who else was in the cast? Perkins was the star of musical Damn Yankees, the part Tab Hunter played in the film. Unfortunately Ethel Merman did her night club act for a week. Ella Fitzgerald was smart, only a Sunday performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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