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Sunday, April 20, 2025

Welcome

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 Welcome to Threw the Hat,  a blog about Australian Juggling History. Here you will find links to photos and articles/stories about Australi...

A 20th Century Sydney Juggling Network or who knew who......

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  Today many jugglers learn through watching youtube, instagram or facebook. Some learn through swapping ideas personally and attending jugg...

Nabekichi and Theresa Mayeda- Risley artists- (foot jugglers)

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Nabekichi Mayeda, with his wife Theresa toured Australia with Wirth's Circus for almost 3 years in the late 1930s. During that time, Nab...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

Sydney Jugglers in the early years....training grounds and meeting places.

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     In the early years, Sydney jugglers would train at a place called the sandhills which was located near the current site of Moore Park. ...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Hal the Jesting Juggler, his many names and mishaps with Cinquevalli's cannonball trick.

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  Hal Brash was a prominent juggler in Australia in the early 20 th Century. Everybody knew Hal, said the papers,but they never printed his...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

A few more notes on Uno Togo- Japanese Juggler and his wife, Glory Togo.

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 Uno Ishikawa, a Japanese juggler born in 1889, came to Australia in 1916 as one of the juggling Royal Togos. The Togos toured the country f...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Jimmy Collins aka Colino, aka JJ Collins aka Dr Kena

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 Jimmy Collins, juggler, cinema manager, MBE and war time photographer was a Western Australian whose birth name was James Jones. Mrs James ...