Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoTIL 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.en.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTIL 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.en.wikipedia.orgDon_Dickle@lemmy.world to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareulkesh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI still would have owned the ball in the buckets Grand Prize Game. If only I lived in Chicago and given the chance.
minus-squareHuckledebuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYep, every kid that missed out on the brand new crisp one hundred dollar bill was a scrub and it should’ve been mine.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoOne 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.)
minus-squareHuckledebuck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoYeah, that was in the 80s.
I still would have owned the ball in the buckets Grand Prize Game. If only I lived in Chicago and given the chance.
Yep, every kid that missed out on the brand new crisp one hundred dollar bill was a scrub and it should’ve been mine.
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.)
Yeah, that was in the 80s.