RIP BOZO aka Frank Avruch

http://www.syracuse.com/celebrity-news/index.ssf/2018/03/bozo_the_clown_dead_frank_avruch.html
Frank Avruch, aka Bozo the Clown, Dead at 89
Bozo was a favorite of the time.

I heard about this urban legend decades ago as a kid. Never actually corroborated, those old live shows weren't all taped.


https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cram-it-clown/

bozo was pretty cool, he used to spray cookie with a seltzer bottle. and he ran the "grand prize game"...which was basically kids playing giant beer pong for a bike.
honestly though, he was just filler between the cartoons, like all adults on kids shows.

Clowns are creepy. John Wayne Gacy tainted that profession for life.

neosapien said:

Clowns are creepy. John Wayne Gacy tainted that profession for life.

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evergreengardener said:

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just noticed you quoted me in your signature....i feel privileged, just wish that wouldn't have been taken out of context

I remember when I was a little kid it used to piss me off that he never let Cookie lead the parade.

neosapien said:

Clowns are creepy. John Wayne Gacy tainted that profession for life.

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Yep, and Pennywise sealed the deal. My mom won tickets for us to the Bozo show when we were kids, and as a surprise she let us skip school to attend. I was fortunate enough for the arrow to fall on me, and I freaked out because I was such a shy kid. I didn't even want to go up there and almost cried. I went up and luckily hit all 6 buckets and won a shit ton of stuff. I remember taking the bus back home (we didn't have a car, too poor) carrying all this shit, desserts, a huge display of buttons, t-shirts, etc.. My dad's friend drove to the studio to pick up my bike, which was my very first bicycle. Some little shit kid punched me in the face and stole it a few weeks later, and I was heartbroken. But such is life in inner-city Chicago, at least they didn't shoot you back then. Ah, nostalgia. RIP, Bozo. Thanks for all the free shit and great memories...

He inspired some great music though. RIP Homie. Pourin' out some Faygo for a true ninja...

tyler.durden said:

My dad's friend drove to the studio to pick up my bike, which was my very first bicycle. Some little shit kid punched me in the face and stole it a few weeks later, and I was heartbroken. But such is life in inner-city Chicago, at least they didn't shoot you back then. Ah, nostalgia. RIP, Bozo. Thanks for all the free shit and great memories...

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That sucks. I remember my first bike, it was a $10 POS dark brown woman's bicycle I got at a flea market with money I had saved up. I used to ride it down to the corner store all the time to pick up cigs for my stepdad and shit like that. Then one day this kid that kinda hung around the neighborhood but didn't live there tried to take off on it while I was in the store.

He took off down the hill towards the round about hauling ass. He got the shit scared out of him though when he found out that thing didn't have any brakes (it was fun learning to ride that thing to say the least, a bike that's way too big for you and doesn't have any brakes. good times) He somehow managed to not get killed and left the bike laying on someones lawn.

I got to go on the show too. I won a fern gulley T shirt that was 4 sizes too large and got to see myself on tv.

It was like a real life krusty the clown. As soon as the lights dimmed and they went to commercial break, you could see him instantly go into fuck it mode and then he bounced back as soon as the show was back on.

my first bike was a big ass schwinn beach cruiser kind of thing , like this but rusty and beat all to hell. it was heavy as hell, you had to stand up on the pedals to get moving. one kid tried to steal it...pedaled it about 20 feet, jumped off, told me it was a piece of shit, and ran off.

:oof:: frk'a Freeesssh

then i got one of these three speed on the nut buster units. i was hot shit till i wrecked it and bent multiple parts.....of the bike....and myself

broke my collar bone in the spring, spent the summer with a cast on my chest holding my left arm out
which was ok, because the bike spent the summer with it's front forks sticking out sideways, too

yep, that's a sweet cycle dude....

Roger A. Shrubber said:

then i got one of these three speed on the nut buster units. i was hot shit till i wrecked it and bent multiple parts.....of the bike....and myself
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broke my collar bone in the spring, spent the summer with a cast on my chest holding my left arm out
which was ok, because the bike spent the summer with it's front forks sticking out sideways, too

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I remember that bike. I know exactly how old you are.

This was my favorite, and longest lasting bike I owned in my youth, the Bandit by Huffy. It was so unique and futuristic for its time, everyone wanted to ride it...

tyler.durden said:

This was my favorite, and longest lasting bike I owned in my youth, the Bandit by Huffy. It was so unique and futuristic for its time, everyone wanted to ride it...

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Nice. I had a Huffy Thunder Road.

pabloesqobar said:

Nice. I had a Huffy Thunder Road.

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Like this? Badass. Those huffys were solid steel and heavy as hell, virtually indestructible. This thing I loved about the bandit is that you could wedge a basketball into the handlebars and it almost never came out. We were way too cool...