Unless you count Nik Wallenda walking a giant ferris wheel. While its moving. And wet. Without a tether. For a Guiness record. https://twitter.com/search?q=%23walkthewheel&src=hash http://livewire.wesh.com/Event/Nik_Wallenda_walks_on_Orlando_Eye_live_video_updates https://twitter.com/search?q=#walkthewheel&src=hash Somebody should buy that man a pint of Guinness!
That's a long way down! Time to ramble again. This is what old people do....... Not long after moving to this small town area we went to the local flea markets. One very small and sort of run down is about five miles from where we live. Met an old guy who's name I forgot working a booth there. Now I am old but he looked 110! Google would probably tell more. He started bragging that he and his ex-wife were the couple that rode a Harley dresser on highwire for the circus. Of course we didn't believe him. After all he drove a beat up pick up and was selling crap at a small town flea market!:confused: As we met and talked to him over months he proved it by showing us a very large photo album of him and his young pretty wife. He no longer looked like those pictures from all over the world but why else would he tell this story? Seems like many circus performers, the wife ran off with the midget, the three eyed man, or someone else! Between her and the circus owners Jon Doe got nothing. This was also normal with all sorts of actors and performers so his story was now believeable. Getting back to the Flying Wallendas, now Jon Doe bragged his wife and him helped train the younger members of the family up in Wisconsin. My wife and I had been many times to Circus World museum near Wis. Dells, I believe in Baraboo. And I remembered some of the pictures there like this Jon Doe had when we saw his highwire act photos and the Wallendas. Nothing to do with this story but amazing we met one of the circus performers from the original Wallendas. The guy had more money than we realized. He often begged us to go fishing in the Gulf in his yacht. Yes he had one as we later saw. That's another story.
Sigh. Nothing interesting ever happens in my town This is my original reply to this post. Lots of interesting things happen here. Robbery, rape, head on collisions, home invasion, major drug busts, and murder. We moved from the midwest to get away from crime!:banghead3:
It's interesting you would spin this story, with a crumb of doubt and a plateful of wonder to it, but when Circus World and Baraboo are ever mentioned to me, I always remember that actor Ernest Borgnine and his wife would volunteer at the museum and participate in the big parade every year until a handful of years ago. I know this because I saw pics of the Borgnines in the parade, dressed as clowns, in a book about the museum and the histories of the two main American circuses.
I actually don't doubt the old man a bit. His large photo albums and stories seemed believeable in detail. He even had photos from all over the world showing their performances. So that means there was a chance actor Ernest Borgnine and his wife were there when we were a time or too. I really enjoyed the parade they'd have with all the old Mack trucks, wagons, and animals. After moving to Florida we took our youngest son up there. Yet if Ernist and wife were dressed like clowns I would have never known anyway. Also enjoyed the Circus Museum in Wisconsin Dells or actually Lake Delton across the river which is now a giant water and amusement park. Keeping on topic like I like to do, I remember looking out windows of that Circus museum and seeing several nice 55-57 Chevy Nomads in the yard next door.
Another boring day. Sir Paul McCartney showed up at a graduation party, and sat in with the local band for two numbers. I wasn't invited. http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/29036921/paul-mccartney-sings-with-tampa-wedding-band I thought it was another fake FOX story, but there's video here: http://www.myfoxorlando.com/story/29036921/paul-mccartney-sings-with-tampa-wedding-band
That's Kool. But nothing interesting ever happens in our town............ For real! Even wife beatings and drug busts are starting to look normal.
