Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron Bingo Hauser: Trading Fur for Iron North American Carnival Museum and Archives
Bingo met his wife Jackie in 1948, not long after he purchased his lion Simba.
Close up of black and white photo of an infant’s face. Bingo Hauser was born on October 17th 1926 in Warsaw Poland. His family emigrated to Brandon Manitoba when […]
“Jackie, my mom, she was just so much a part of all of everything dad did. It was always the two of them.”
Jackie jumped right into the animal show business with Bingo once they were married.
See picture of Bingo and his daughter bonding with lion cubs.
An inspector once tried to feed this lion vegetables. Knowledge of animals during this time was limited and definitely not as widespread as it is today. Lions are […]
Both Bingo and Jackie shared the responsibility of looking after all the animals.
Jackie the lion was born in 1951, one of the first lions obtained by the Hausers after Simba.
Bingo had a black bear named Blackie as part of his animal show.
Bingo is at the head of the snake to left of the photo and next to him is Billy Captain. Snakes were a big part of Bingo’s animal show, […]
This is an example of a bannerline created for Bingo’s animal show. Bingo and Jackie later built a much larger one as their show grew.
“The animals that went to the Calgary Zoo, it was the big alligator and it was in a big box that looked like a coffin, and there was […]
