The memories in this cartoon are:
1. The balloon is one from my childhood from the Zurah Shrine Circus. They were normal-sized balloons but to a four-year-old, they were huge. I can still, to this day, smell the mix of the plastic of the ballon and the helium mix.
2. As ‘Thee Potentate,’ they dress you up as a clown and my Dad, Potentate 1974, wore the polka dotted outfit with the big white gloves. My Dad was a dentist, he had HUGE hands.
3. Lastly, back in the day, the clowns that would make balloon animals wore red vests to carry their stock of deflated balloons in the pockets (along with a magic trick or two).
This one makes me chortle every time I see it!!!