Joe Jackson Sr.

Preferring intimate settings, Jackson worked almost exclusively in vaudeville and European one-ring circuses.

Shortly afterward, he opened a restaurant and resort in Bellvale, Greenwood Lake New York, where he made his home.

In his late years he devoted most of his time to managing his eatery, making only infrequent stage appearances, mostly in New York, when he felt like it.

During a recent (to that time) run at the Music Hall, Junior substituted for his father for one performance and nobody knew the difference.

He was married to Maria 'Rialto' Truccot Prols, a former singer, who ran Mother Rialto's tavern in Bellvale, New York with him and their later daughter-in-law.