The baggy-pants clown in that image is Lou Jacobs, who made a world of circus fans laugh for six decades before his death Sunday, at age 89, in Sarasota, Fla.

If you want to get a sense of what it's like to walk on a high wire, or squeeze yourself into the kind of tiny car legendary clown Lou Jacobs once used, now you can give it a try.

With a tiny hat perched on his pointy head and a gargantuan smile drawn on his face, Lou Jacobs was the emblem for the Ringling circus posters. In 1966, he was the first living person to have his ...