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commissary where circus performers were literally undressing and dressing as they rushed back and forth to the performance area. After the performances, the trapeze artists would rehearse and practice and I was always there to watch; it remains my favorite part of the circus      vending until I was promoted to working in the concession stands at   I am still in the business today, 58 years later. I am extremely sad to see  


            Arena in Everett. What made it particularly special was the excitement  circus since he was a little boy and looked so forward to meeting “the  away. Also of note in this 2006 photo at the far right is Trey Bell, who at that time was assistant general manager of the venue. We recruited  - ing ground for so many successful people in our industry. The [above    


 - vention Center Complex. Excited, I reported to duty in operations. Michael Amador, operations manager, promptly handed me three garbage bags, a pan and broom and assigned me to sweep up nacho containers, cotton candy remnants, and popcorn from the Greatest Show on Earth in section 304 of the arena, followed by mopping up snow cone syrup and soda spills. The executive director wanted to make sure I learned every element of venue management and to not 


sexy side of the industry I had envisioned. It was disgusting, but I was hooked … and ever since the show behind the show has gone on. - peake Conference Center, Chesapeake, VA


 Unit and Blue Unit of RBBB. Since 1990 when I left RBBB, I have been an event coordinator, event manager and business development      Sunday that week, we had an afternoon matinee and a weather fore-  transport cages into the arena, lined them up and let the leopards and black panthers into the big cage to start the second half of the per-   -         when BOOM! There was a loud crash of thunder and the arena went completely dark. This was in the early 70’s and emergency lighting in most arenas did


not exist and the arena was completely black. The audience gasped out loud but they stayed calm and remained in the seats. There was   excited and possibly attacking one another or possibly him. Believe me when I say the cats could see him a lot better than he could see them. Since I was the head of the transportation department, I got one of


  came inside and gave him our headlights. This helped tremendously. After a few minutes, it seemed like the lights were not coming back on so he calmly had the cats go back into the transport cages.   - pened and was speaking with one of the senior stagehands about this incident. It turns out he was the house light operator at that perfor-  he said he thought he did something that caused the loud BOOM and 


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