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| Clown & Kids, August 1962 from Steve Garfield | |||||||||
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The Lone
Ranger on Silver at the Show Bowl in 1964 from Ken Hunt's Family
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| "But Pleasure Island recently brought me great distinction with my 11 year old son. He had just received his first Three Stooges video and as we watched it, I proudly told him that I had appeared on stage with the trio. It occurred at the Show Bowl in 1959 or 60. The Stooges, with Moe, Larry, Curley-Joe (Derita), invited three kids on stage, dressed us as babies and conducted a contest to see who among us could empty a baby bottle full of milk through a rubber nipple. I fortunately discovered that if you just let the milk slide out through the enlarged hole, you could avoid constricting the flow by sucking on it. My prize was a plastic model of a knight in arms and the short-lived awe of my son. "Larry Brown | |||||||||
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| Detail from a photo printed in the Boston Globe May 27, 1962 — The Three Stooges being driven away from the Show Bowl. It was taken by House of Photography, probably in 1960 or 1961. | |||||||||
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From
1961 Brochure
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Chuck
Connors, The Rifleman, 1961
Slide from Gail Rivers  |
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| Pleasure Island brings back lots of fond memories. The staff would stand at the back or sit on the rear fence for the evening shows. Ricky Nelson put on a great show in the summer of '62. Billed as a special event, it was memorable for more than the music: the Lord Wakefield cut up and sold one inch squares from his bedsheets, and that tidbit got a lot of play in the local newspapers and had our parents wondering what would become of our generation. But some of the "lesser" shows were fabulous as well. I particularly remember Tex Beneke and what was essentially the remainder of the Glenn Miller Orchestra (to include the Modernaires), and went to every show for a week. I still think of those balmy summer nights in the PI "Show Bowl" every time I put on a Glenn Miller CD. Bill Bell | |||||||||
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Show
Bowl Mr. Sweep? 1962
Slide from Gail Rivers  |
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The Royal
Hannaford Circus at home on stage in the Showbowl, 1965
from Walter Sherman's Photo Collection at the Wakefield Historical Society 
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Bob
Weatherwax and Lassie, 1967
Photo from Priscilla DiDonato Hendrick  |
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Rickie
Nelson, 1967
Photo from William Strogilis  |
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Rickie
Nelson, 1967
Photo from William Strogilis  |
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