TIL 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.

Don_Dickle@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

ulkesh@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

I still would have owned the ball in the buckets Grand Prize Game. If only I lived in Chicago and given the chance.

Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works · 4 months ago

Yep, every kid that missed out on the brand new crisp one hundred dollar bill was a scrub and it should’ve been mine.

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

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.)

Huckledebuck@sh.itjust.works · 4 months ago

Yeah, that was in the 80s.

Rolando@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

wow according to the article:

Chicago’s Bozo’s Circus … had a waiting list for studio tickets that eventually reached ten years.