Profile for CCKitty  |
| Member Since: |
Dec. 4, 2001 |
| Member Title: |
Administrator |
| Last Post: |
Last posted in Physics of Swing on June 25, 2010 |
| Total Posts: |
2171 |
| Email Address: |
ccswing@wi.rr.com |
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http://www.ccswing.com |
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| Location: |
Brookfield |
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Daddy was a barnstormer. My mother was the last surviving wing-walker of the 'Wings over Mid-America' air show. She started her career at the tender age of 15, the week after my Aunt Rose plummeted into a cornfield near Munsie, Indiana.<p>I spent my childhood trailing after Mama, and Mama trailing after any man that smiled at her. But she saw to it that I had, not only shoes, but dance lessons.<p>We finally settled down when Mama married a trapeze artist in the Ringling Bros. circus and we spent our lives as most people do....60 towns in N. America every summer & winters touring S. America. My step-daddy was nice enough, until I was 14, and then he was a little too nice.<p>The day I turned 15 Uncle Dom dropped him into the center ring in Toledo, & Mama and I left to pursue other interests.<p>Mama thought it would be best to leave the country for awhile and it was that summer in Spain, where I met my first love, a bullfighter named Carlos. He was much older, probably 19, and always the perfect gentleman. I was heartbroken when Mama decided it was time to go home to the States. I was never to see Carlos again, but he wrote me twice, in Spanish and I read them as best I could.<p>I guess show-biz was in my blood - by the time I was 17 I was on the North American tour as a rodeo clown and trick rider.<p>Fate was determined to show me the way. Running late one day, I climbed into my barrel in nothing but my dainties, and that was the day that old Diablo, charged - and the barrel broke clean off me. The crowd went wild! - and I had found my calling.<p>I became a fan dancer on the vaudeville circuit and never looked back. |
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