Pokin Around: Bob Mabe reflects on entertainment career
Bob Mabe, 91, is the last living original Baldknobber. Mabe is the only one of the six boys born to Hazel and Donald Mabe on this side of eternity, despite being the oldest. He and three of his brothers formed the Baldknobbbers, a Branson entertainment staple, in 1960, when Dwight Eisenhower was president The show featured country music, gospel, hillbilly culture, hillbilly humor and some come-to-Jesus preaching. “Baldknobbers” also is the name of the vigilante group that met on the bald tops, or knobs, of Ozarks mountains in the late 1800s. The show has changed over the years and is ...
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