I’d like to think that clowns don’t frighten me. As a child I don’t think they did. I liked clowns and never thought of them as being creepy men in makeup hiding their true identity. They were just clowns. I guess it was John Wayne Gacey who made me start looking at them with a skeptical eye. I sort of hate that clowns are forever tarnished in my imagination. I still adore Clarabell and Emmett Kelly and nobody will convince me otherwise. That said…
Over the next several posts you’ll meet clowns, some real, some just drawings, from the 1940 Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus Magazine and Daily Review. I’ll let you be the judge on the creepiness quotient.
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(SOURCE: Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus Magazine and Daily Review, 1940)
To see another vintage Camel cigarette post with a very interesting outcome click here. It's one of the most interesting posts I've ever done.
Oh yah - I remember that one...
ReplyDeleteI love clowns! I used to collect them. I especially love Red skelton's clowns.
ReplyDeleteI think Hollywood is to blame for this generation's fear of clowns.
Yes, Red was a classy clown.
DeleteI'm one of the many who have coulrophobia [fear of clowns] so I really, really, really don't like clowns in any shape or form.
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