WALLACE BROS. CIRCUS complimentary General Admission ticket signed "Uncle Jack"

Description

Jack Farnam Heinsohn didn’t have to run away to join the circus. He was born in 1927 in Long Beach, Calif., to parents on Vaudeville and by the time he was 9 months old, he had been in every state west of the Mississippi River. After his parents split up, he grew up in the circus with his father, a tight-rope walker.
Over time, Uncle Jack was a clown and everything else, ending up as a flying trapeze artist working the big cities of America and Canada for big cash.
His Wallace Brothers Circus wintered in Yok SC, perhaps the only village where Santa Claus arrived on the back of an elephant in the annual Christmas parade. Uncle Jack boarded with the Bennetts— a house full of kids so enamored by the circus that they actually created their own circus, performing in York, Rock Hill, Clover and Sharon.
The ticket has not been used, but has been signed in fountain or quill pen. It is protected, and has been for a long time, in a light weigh poly bag open at the top. The price tag is on the bag. The thumb print preserves a child's love for popcorn.