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Clifford E. Vargas (1924â1989) founded Circus Vargas in 1969. Vargas was influenced to restart the big top tent circus from his childhood fascination with glamour and thrills of old circuses. He was a frequent spectator with big top tent circuses that visited his hometown of
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Circus Vargas then went on hiatus. In 2005, Roland Kaiser's stepdaughter, Katya Arata
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management executives with the show, began managing the circus. Faced with rising costs and declining attendance, Kaiser and
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