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Interview with Bobby Reynolds
"The World's Greatest Showman"
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Interview with Bobby Reynolds
"The
World's Greatest Showman"
Meet
Bobby Reynolds! Possibly the world's greatest Showman, and a world class personality!
At
13 years old Bobby Reynolds was the pitchman for Professor Heckler's famous
trained fleas at Hubert's Museum in New York!
Professor Heckler's fleas performed
for more than 40 years, and many people who line up early for our show do so
because they remember Hubert's!
Now, if you do an act so well that people
line up 50 years later to see it again, you must have done something VERY right.
Bobby
is a wonderful person, and a legend in not only the world of fleas, but in the
world of the circus sideshow.
He sold more than a million dollars worth of
just one plastic whistle he pitched!
I recently met Bobby (now 74) at his
beautiful home in Fresno and he chatted with me on camera about his circus and
flea days.
Bobby now lives with his beautiful 10th wife (he's been married
or remarried 13 times though says he has lost count) and his 9th wife is still
best friends and lives nearby.
Many of his side show artifacts inhabit his
garage, including every book P.T. Barnum ever wrote.
He still remembers every
line from the 1950's flea circus presentation he did, as well as all the
personalities from Huberts. And he did impressions of many on camera.
(Coming soon!)
I'm currently
editing the interview, both for a documentary on fleas I'm working on,
AND to add to this page in the future for your enjoyment!
In the mean time,
in searching the web, I found a wonderful little video about Bobby Done by Craig
Kohlruss if you'd like to learn more.
Click
Here
for that video....
Check back in the future for the recent flea interview I shot, and more on Bobby Reynolds!
Thanks to Chuck and Bambi Burns for introducing us!