In my early years, I was a member of the Rodeo Kids out of Independence MO from about 1958 to 1966. We raced, jumped and trick rode on our horses and ponies. One summer, not sure which one, Pinkie came to the Rodeo Kid arena on 40 highway to give us all lessons. I studied rope tricks. Pinkie stayed a while and we all got pretty good. Another Rodeo Kid, Pat Dignan, took whip lessons from Pinkey. Pat and I had a little whip act where I held paper strips and balloons and Pat hit them with the whip. Fortunately, he was very good and I still have my nose and all my fingers.
8/22/2020 Was recently contacted by a nephew of the late great Pinkey Barnes. He has created a website about Pinkey with lots more pictures. If you have found this memorial, you will enjoy the website https://www.pinkeybarnes.com
Real Name: Bernard Baronski or Baronowski.
Pinky was in the following movies:
The Singing Buckaroo
Actors: Fred Scott, William Faversham, Victoria Vinton, Cliff Nazarro, Pinky Barnes
Synopsis: Truly made to order, The Singing Buckaroo starred former San Francisco Opera baritone Fred Scott in his second of thirteen singing Westerns for poverty row company Spectrum. In between warbling Johnny Lange and Fred Stryker's Cobweb 'Round My Saddle, Frankly Speaking and I'm a Wild Westerner, ranch Read More
1937
Desert Guns
Actors: Conway Tearle, Margaret Morris, William Gould, Budd Buster
Synopsis: In his fourth and final Western for Poverty Row company Beaumont Pictures, veteran leading man Conway Tearle played Kirk Allenby, a lawman hired by the Cattlemen's Association to bring in his look-alike, Bob Enright (also Tearle), a renegade rancher. Badly injuring Enright in a gunfight, Allenby
1936
Fighting Caballero
Synopsis: Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by a gang of ruffians. Looking into several troubling occurrences at the site, including the murder of a mining engineer, Pat (Gulliver) learns that Devil Jackson (George Read More
Pinky discovered and trained world famous trick rider J W Stoker.
Still trying to fill in all the missing info:
was he married before Mabel? any children?
date and place married to Mabel
where he buried his famous horse Rex
did he return to show biz after Mabel's death?
Pinky's timeline so far:
1900 Pinky born in Michigan
1936 acted in movie Desert Guns
1937 acted in movie The Singing Buckaroo
1937 Feb performing at the Cedars, Reno NV
1937 Feb performing at Sparks Theater, Reno NV
1937 May "
1937 Nov main speaker at Camp Reno, "now associated with local automobile concern"
1938 performing in Reno NV, the Dog House tavern
1938 May - is hired to train children for movie roles in Reno
1945 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1946 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1948 performed at Weston MO Tobacco & Ag Show
1949 Mabel injured in fall from ladder at circus practice
1951 quits circus to stay with Mabel in KCMO
1954 Oct 16 Billboard Magazine page 50 - Under the Marquee included a note stating that "Jean Midoff and her mother visited Pinky & Mabel Barnes at Kelly-Miller, with Jean working her white horse in the big show during her stay.
On page 60 headline KELLY-MILLER TO CLOSE OCT 31; CROWDS GOOD includes mention of Pinky "Terrell Jacobs' elephant and ponies, Pinky Barnes' horse act, Lou Walton & Fisher, clowns, and Tommy & Sylvia Thompson's dog act will play Missouri Christmas shows for Junior Clark, Nov 26-Dec 24.
1954 Nov 27 Billboard article says "the International Press carried the article about Pinky Barnes, the old 101 Ranch hand who was injured in the Kelly Miller circus one week after his wife Mabel was hospitalized.
1960 giving lessons to Rodeo Kids in Independence MO
1962 Mabel dies in overheated trailer
1968 Pinky dies in Michigan.
From biography of J W Stoker:
As a nine year old boy, J.W. belonged to a riding club and would get together on Sundays with kids who ranged in age from 6 to 18. "We'd do musical chairs and drills and things on our ponies," he recalls, "and we'd spin a rope and try to do tricks." That winter a cowboy named Pinky Barnes who traveled to Kansas City in the winter of 1938 to teach kids how to rope. "He'd done some movies and worked in circuses and Wild West Shows and rodeos," J.W. explains.
Pinky was a wild west show and rodeo hand who frequently worked in the movies. From that point on J.W. knew he wanted to be a trick rider and roper and practiced everyday for hours.
He even took his rope to school to practice during lunch. "I practiced every day. I only lived two blocks from school, so I'd come home at noon to eat lunch--and I'd practice. I even practiced at recess." J.W. adds, with a hearty laugh, "And when I got home, I'd practice some more!'
When Pinky's boss at the Wild West Show and Rodeo (Clyde S. Miller) showed up in Kansas one day, Pinky was bragging about his young student. Clyde had to see for himself! Then immediately wanted to talk with J.W.'s parents to sign up the kid.
1910 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis, all born Michigan
Ernest B 36 head motorman on street railway
Minnie 29 wife
Bernard R 10 son
Velma K 7 dau
Helen D 5 dau
1920 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis
Ernest B 46
Minnie V 39
Velma 17
Helen 15
In 1911, the family was living at 498 Tillman Ave, Detroit Michigan
If you have info about Pinky, pictures, *anything*, please click EDIT to contact me.
8/22/2020 Was recently contacted by a nephew of the late great Pinkey Barnes. He has created a website about Pinkey with lots more pictures. If you have found this memorial, you will enjoy the website https://www.pinkeybarnes.com
Real Name: Bernard Baronski or Baronowski.
Pinky was in the following movies:
The Singing Buckaroo
Actors: Fred Scott, William Faversham, Victoria Vinton, Cliff Nazarro, Pinky Barnes
Synopsis: Truly made to order, The Singing Buckaroo starred former San Francisco Opera baritone Fred Scott in his second of thirteen singing Westerns for poverty row company Spectrum. In between warbling Johnny Lange and Fred Stryker's Cobweb 'Round My Saddle, Frankly Speaking and I'm a Wild Westerner, ranch Read More
1937
Desert Guns
Actors: Conway Tearle, Margaret Morris, William Gould, Budd Buster
Synopsis: In his fourth and final Western for Poverty Row company Beaumont Pictures, veteran leading man Conway Tearle played Kirk Allenby, a lawman hired by the Cattlemen's Association to bring in his look-alike, Bob Enright (also Tearle), a renegade rancher. Badly injuring Enright in a gunfight, Allenby
1936
Fighting Caballero
Synopsis: Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by a gang of ruffians. Looking into several troubling occurrences at the site, including the murder of a mining engineer, Pat (Gulliver) learns that Devil Jackson (George Read More
Pinky discovered and trained world famous trick rider J W Stoker.
Still trying to fill in all the missing info:
was he married before Mabel? any children?
date and place married to Mabel
where he buried his famous horse Rex
did he return to show biz after Mabel's death?
Pinky's timeline so far:
1900 Pinky born in Michigan
1936 acted in movie Desert Guns
1937 acted in movie The Singing Buckaroo
1937 Feb performing at the Cedars, Reno NV
1937 Feb performing at Sparks Theater, Reno NV
1937 May "
1937 Nov main speaker at Camp Reno, "now associated with local automobile concern"
1938 performing in Reno NV, the Dog House tavern
1938 May - is hired to train children for movie roles in Reno
1945 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1946 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1948 performed at Weston MO Tobacco & Ag Show
1949 Mabel injured in fall from ladder at circus practice
1951 quits circus to stay with Mabel in KCMO
1954 Oct 16 Billboard Magazine page 50 - Under the Marquee included a note stating that "Jean Midoff and her mother visited Pinky & Mabel Barnes at Kelly-Miller, with Jean working her white horse in the big show during her stay.
On page 60 headline KELLY-MILLER TO CLOSE OCT 31; CROWDS GOOD includes mention of Pinky "Terrell Jacobs' elephant and ponies, Pinky Barnes' horse act, Lou Walton & Fisher, clowns, and Tommy & Sylvia Thompson's dog act will play Missouri Christmas shows for Junior Clark, Nov 26-Dec 24.
1954 Nov 27 Billboard article says "the International Press carried the article about Pinky Barnes, the old 101 Ranch hand who was injured in the Kelly Miller circus one week after his wife Mabel was hospitalized.
1960 giving lessons to Rodeo Kids in Independence MO
1962 Mabel dies in overheated trailer
1968 Pinky dies in Michigan.
From biography of J W Stoker:
As a nine year old boy, J.W. belonged to a riding club and would get together on Sundays with kids who ranged in age from 6 to 18. "We'd do musical chairs and drills and things on our ponies," he recalls, "and we'd spin a rope and try to do tricks." That winter a cowboy named Pinky Barnes who traveled to Kansas City in the winter of 1938 to teach kids how to rope. "He'd done some movies and worked in circuses and Wild West Shows and rodeos," J.W. explains.
Pinky was a wild west show and rodeo hand who frequently worked in the movies. From that point on J.W. knew he wanted to be a trick rider and roper and practiced everyday for hours.
He even took his rope to school to practice during lunch. "I practiced every day. I only lived two blocks from school, so I'd come home at noon to eat lunch--and I'd practice. I even practiced at recess." J.W. adds, with a hearty laugh, "And when I got home, I'd practice some more!'
When Pinky's boss at the Wild West Show and Rodeo (Clyde S. Miller) showed up in Kansas one day, Pinky was bragging about his young student. Clyde had to see for himself! Then immediately wanted to talk with J.W.'s parents to sign up the kid.
1910 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis, all born Michigan
Ernest B 36 head motorman on street railway
Minnie 29 wife
Bernard R 10 son
Velma K 7 dau
Helen D 5 dau
1920 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis
Ernest B 46
Minnie V 39
Velma 17
Helen 15
In 1911, the family was living at 498 Tillman Ave, Detroit Michigan
If you have info about Pinky, pictures, *anything*, please click EDIT to contact me.
In my early years, I was a member of the Rodeo Kids out of Independence MO from about 1958 to 1966. We raced, jumped and trick rode on our horses and ponies. One summer, not sure which one, Pinkie came to the Rodeo Kid arena on 40 highway to give us all lessons. I studied rope tricks. Pinkie stayed a while and we all got pretty good. Another Rodeo Kid, Pat Dignan, took whip lessons from Pinkey. Pat and I had a little whip act where I held paper strips and balloons and Pat hit them with the whip. Fortunately, he was very good and I still have my nose and all my fingers.
8/22/2020 Was recently contacted by a nephew of the late great Pinkey Barnes. He has created a website about Pinkey with lots more pictures. If you have found this memorial, you will enjoy the website https://www.pinkeybarnes.com
Real Name: Bernard Baronski or Baronowski.
Pinky was in the following movies:
The Singing Buckaroo
Actors: Fred Scott, William Faversham, Victoria Vinton, Cliff Nazarro, Pinky Barnes
Synopsis: Truly made to order, The Singing Buckaroo starred former San Francisco Opera baritone Fred Scott in his second of thirteen singing Westerns for poverty row company Spectrum. In between warbling Johnny Lange and Fred Stryker's Cobweb 'Round My Saddle, Frankly Speaking and I'm a Wild Westerner, ranch Read More
1937
Desert Guns
Actors: Conway Tearle, Margaret Morris, William Gould, Budd Buster
Synopsis: In his fourth and final Western for Poverty Row company Beaumont Pictures, veteran leading man Conway Tearle played Kirk Allenby, a lawman hired by the Cattlemen's Association to bring in his look-alike, Bob Enright (also Tearle), a renegade rancher. Badly injuring Enright in a gunfight, Allenby
1936
Fighting Caballero
Synopsis: Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by a gang of ruffians. Looking into several troubling occurrences at the site, including the murder of a mining engineer, Pat (Gulliver) learns that Devil Jackson (George Read More
Pinky discovered and trained world famous trick rider J W Stoker.
Still trying to fill in all the missing info:
was he married before Mabel? any children?
date and place married to Mabel
where he buried his famous horse Rex
did he return to show biz after Mabel's death?
Pinky's timeline so far:
1900 Pinky born in Michigan
1936 acted in movie Desert Guns
1937 acted in movie The Singing Buckaroo
1937 Feb performing at the Cedars, Reno NV
1937 Feb performing at Sparks Theater, Reno NV
1937 May "
1937 Nov main speaker at Camp Reno, "now associated with local automobile concern"
1938 performing in Reno NV, the Dog House tavern
1938 May - is hired to train children for movie roles in Reno
1945 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1946 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1948 performed at Weston MO Tobacco & Ag Show
1949 Mabel injured in fall from ladder at circus practice
1951 quits circus to stay with Mabel in KCMO
1954 Oct 16 Billboard Magazine page 50 - Under the Marquee included a note stating that "Jean Midoff and her mother visited Pinky & Mabel Barnes at Kelly-Miller, with Jean working her white horse in the big show during her stay.
On page 60 headline KELLY-MILLER TO CLOSE OCT 31; CROWDS GOOD includes mention of Pinky "Terrell Jacobs' elephant and ponies, Pinky Barnes' horse act, Lou Walton & Fisher, clowns, and Tommy & Sylvia Thompson's dog act will play Missouri Christmas shows for Junior Clark, Nov 26-Dec 24.
1954 Nov 27 Billboard article says "the International Press carried the article about Pinky Barnes, the old 101 Ranch hand who was injured in the Kelly Miller circus one week after his wife Mabel was hospitalized.
1960 giving lessons to Rodeo Kids in Independence MO
1962 Mabel dies in overheated trailer
1968 Pinky dies in Michigan.
From biography of J W Stoker:
As a nine year old boy, J.W. belonged to a riding club and would get together on Sundays with kids who ranged in age from 6 to 18. "We'd do musical chairs and drills and things on our ponies," he recalls, "and we'd spin a rope and try to do tricks." That winter a cowboy named Pinky Barnes who traveled to Kansas City in the winter of 1938 to teach kids how to rope. "He'd done some movies and worked in circuses and Wild West Shows and rodeos," J.W. explains.
Pinky was a wild west show and rodeo hand who frequently worked in the movies. From that point on J.W. knew he wanted to be a trick rider and roper and practiced everyday for hours.
He even took his rope to school to practice during lunch. "I practiced every day. I only lived two blocks from school, so I'd come home at noon to eat lunch--and I'd practice. I even practiced at recess." J.W. adds, with a hearty laugh, "And when I got home, I'd practice some more!'
When Pinky's boss at the Wild West Show and Rodeo (Clyde S. Miller) showed up in Kansas one day, Pinky was bragging about his young student. Clyde had to see for himself! Then immediately wanted to talk with J.W.'s parents to sign up the kid.
1910 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis, all born Michigan
Ernest B 36 head motorman on street railway
Minnie 29 wife
Bernard R 10 son
Velma K 7 dau
Helen D 5 dau
1920 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis
Ernest B 46
Minnie V 39
Velma 17
Helen 15
In 1911, the family was living at 498 Tillman Ave, Detroit Michigan
If you have info about Pinky, pictures, *anything*, please click EDIT to contact me.
8/22/2020 Was recently contacted by a nephew of the late great Pinkey Barnes. He has created a website about Pinkey with lots more pictures. If you have found this memorial, you will enjoy the website https://www.pinkeybarnes.com
Real Name: Bernard Baronski or Baronowski.
Pinky was in the following movies:
The Singing Buckaroo
Actors: Fred Scott, William Faversham, Victoria Vinton, Cliff Nazarro, Pinky Barnes
Synopsis: Truly made to order, The Singing Buckaroo starred former San Francisco Opera baritone Fred Scott in his second of thirteen singing Westerns for poverty row company Spectrum. In between warbling Johnny Lange and Fred Stryker's Cobweb 'Round My Saddle, Frankly Speaking and I'm a Wild Westerner, ranch Read More
1937
Desert Guns
Actors: Conway Tearle, Margaret Morris, William Gould, Budd Buster
Synopsis: In his fourth and final Western for Poverty Row company Beaumont Pictures, veteran leading man Conway Tearle played Kirk Allenby, a lawman hired by the Cattlemen's Association to bring in his look-alike, Bob Enright (also Tearle), a renegade rancher. Badly injuring Enright in a gunfight, Allenby
1936
Fighting Caballero
Synopsis: Former silent screen serial queen Dorothy Gulliver stars in this very low-budget Western as the owner of a mine terrorized by a gang of ruffians. Looking into several troubling occurrences at the site, including the murder of a mining engineer, Pat (Gulliver) learns that Devil Jackson (George Read More
Pinky discovered and trained world famous trick rider J W Stoker.
Still trying to fill in all the missing info:
was he married before Mabel? any children?
date and place married to Mabel
where he buried his famous horse Rex
did he return to show biz after Mabel's death?
Pinky's timeline so far:
1900 Pinky born in Michigan
1936 acted in movie Desert Guns
1937 acted in movie The Singing Buckaroo
1937 Feb performing at the Cedars, Reno NV
1937 Feb performing at Sparks Theater, Reno NV
1937 May "
1937 Nov main speaker at Camp Reno, "now associated with local automobile concern"
1938 performing in Reno NV, the Dog House tavern
1938 May - is hired to train children for movie roles in Reno
1945 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1946 performing at Waterloo IA Rodeo
1948 performed at Weston MO Tobacco & Ag Show
1949 Mabel injured in fall from ladder at circus practice
1951 quits circus to stay with Mabel in KCMO
1954 Oct 16 Billboard Magazine page 50 - Under the Marquee included a note stating that "Jean Midoff and her mother visited Pinky & Mabel Barnes at Kelly-Miller, with Jean working her white horse in the big show during her stay.
On page 60 headline KELLY-MILLER TO CLOSE OCT 31; CROWDS GOOD includes mention of Pinky "Terrell Jacobs' elephant and ponies, Pinky Barnes' horse act, Lou Walton & Fisher, clowns, and Tommy & Sylvia Thompson's dog act will play Missouri Christmas shows for Junior Clark, Nov 26-Dec 24.
1954 Nov 27 Billboard article says "the International Press carried the article about Pinky Barnes, the old 101 Ranch hand who was injured in the Kelly Miller circus one week after his wife Mabel was hospitalized.
1960 giving lessons to Rodeo Kids in Independence MO
1962 Mabel dies in overheated trailer
1968 Pinky dies in Michigan.
From biography of J W Stoker:
As a nine year old boy, J.W. belonged to a riding club and would get together on Sundays with kids who ranged in age from 6 to 18. "We'd do musical chairs and drills and things on our ponies," he recalls, "and we'd spin a rope and try to do tricks." That winter a cowboy named Pinky Barnes who traveled to Kansas City in the winter of 1938 to teach kids how to rope. "He'd done some movies and worked in circuses and Wild West Shows and rodeos," J.W. explains.
Pinky was a wild west show and rodeo hand who frequently worked in the movies. From that point on J.W. knew he wanted to be a trick rider and roper and practiced everyday for hours.
He even took his rope to school to practice during lunch. "I practiced every day. I only lived two blocks from school, so I'd come home at noon to eat lunch--and I'd practice. I even practiced at recess." J.W. adds, with a hearty laugh, "And when I got home, I'd practice some more!'
When Pinky's boss at the Wild West Show and Rodeo (Clyde S. Miller) showed up in Kansas one day, Pinky was bragging about his young student. Clyde had to see for himself! Then immediately wanted to talk with J.W.'s parents to sign up the kid.
1910 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis, all born Michigan
Ernest B 36 head motorman on street railway
Minnie 29 wife
Bernard R 10 son
Velma K 7 dau
Helen D 5 dau
1920 census Wayne MI
Baranoskis
Ernest B 46
Minnie V 39
Velma 17
Helen 15
In 1911, the family was living at 498 Tillman Ave, Detroit Michigan
If you have info about Pinky, pictures, *anything*, please click EDIT to contact me.
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