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Jimmy Connors clowns around at match.

A hot and tiring night ends with an appreciative kiss from girlfriend Teresa, who spent her time during the rodeo sitting on her hands watching McIlvain.

Entertainment is the name of the game, and McIlvain's trained mule, Spanky, obliges his master.

A calf chasing contest sometimes ends with a bruised and battered contestant. McIlvain soothes a calf chaser who bit the dust and was run over by swarms of other calf chasing children. A bull that got too close entertains the crowd, and Frank…

Taunting bulls to please crowds is part of McIlvain's job--sometimes the bulls get too close, and an unwary cowboy or clown gets 'hooked'.

Preparation for a night's work becomes somewhat routine for McIlvain. His girlfriend, Teresa, keeps him company as he changes in the privacy of truck bed. He stretches out and limbers up in solitude, thinking about the night ahead...and 2,000 lb.…

The rodeo clown's job of saving cowboys from the flailing hooves and horns of bulls is a dangerous one. Frank McIlvain Jr. has been clowning since he was 13-years-old, and he's been 'bullfighting', or keeping cowboys from being smashed into…

Photograph shows a wagon train on an overpass with a line of cars on the freeway underneath.

Shunning the bright lights of the circus, the Roustabouts, a band of 35 showmen in their own right, carry on a centuries-old tradition of raising the big top and bringing life and excitement to a dormant parking lot.

A drive-in theater becomes a church on Sundays.