Word: shipstad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Oscar Johnson, 71, one of three founders of Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies, the first traveling ice show in the U.S.; of cancer; in Rochester, Minn. As a young man, Johnson entertained Sunday crowds with his skating acrobatics, and later, with Roy and Eddie Shipstad, performed comedy routines at ice carnivals throughout the U.S. In 1936, they conceived the idea of a traveling ice show and the following year recruited a cast of 23, and opened the Ice Follies at Tulsa, Okla...