| ABOUT BIG MIKE
Big Mike was my dad, John E. Balog. For reasons lost to history he was known as Mike his whole life. The likeness on my logo is of him. The sketch was done by a German POW sometime during the Winter of '44. I believe the POW received a pack of cigarettes for the likeness.
After the War Big Mike went to Detroit where he started out in the lighting department of WWJ TV. This is where he spent his career, lighting kids shows like "Milky the Clown" and "Bozo's Big Top" as well as commercials for Strohs Beer and the Big 3 auto companies.
Big Mike died in May of '05, he was 90 years old.
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