Friday, July 22, 2005

Circus Hall of Fame/ Peru, In.


John Herriott and I are flying up to Peru, Ind. this morning, where John and other circus personalities Trevor Bale, Gerard Soules and Miles White will be honored at the Circus Hall of Fame.
Above is a picture of the quarters in Peru that once served as winter home for the Hagenbeck-Wallace, Sells-Floto and JohnRobinson Circuses and remains as an Historic Site.
Therefore the Magic Lantern Show will be shut down for the weekend but return to former glory Monday morning.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 7/22/2005 05:51:00 AM

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Buckles,

Have a safe trip Buckles. I really enjoy the blog site.

22 July, 2005 13:12
Anonymous said...

Have fun in Peru. Give my regards to the circus folk. Looking forward to more pictures and posts.

22 July, 2005 14:37
Anonymous said...

Buckles,

I really enjoy your blog. I do really post but I had to let you know how much I appreciate your pictures and posts.

22 July, 2005 14:44
Anonymous said...

Dave Price and I visited Peru in '95. We were invited to the home of Clyde Beatty's late daughter, Joyce Lee Ferguson. Out at the old Winterquarters, this reverent student of the Old Masters, and the Golden Era, was overcome. I was standing on hallowed ground. Roger Smith

23 July, 2005 14:50
Anonymous said...

I think Roger nailed it. "Hallowed ground." I don't know how to express it, but when I've been to CWM in WI it feels like, "Something once happened here." In Peru, whether in the summer when the days are warm and grass is green at the old winter quarters and the show is on, or in the winter when its cold and you almost have the Miami County Hostorical Museum all to yourself -- it never feels like the circus "used to be here." It feels like the circus is still here, its just sleeping.

23 July, 2005 16:28
Anonymous said...

As spoken on the Beatty Radio Show, the family pronunciation of the name is BAYtee. At the cemetary in Peru, we visited with Mr. Richardson, a lifetime resident who remembered all the old-timers. Dave Price and I considered it a highlight of the trip when I asked if he had known Clyde BAYtee. "No", he mused. "But I knew Clyde BEEtee." Roger

25 July, 2005 13:33
Anonymous said...

I may be confused again, I get that way more often now. In 61 or 62 when Gene and I were at the Winter Quarters of Dottie and Paul Kelly. It was very cold and icy. There was a mound of ice that was fun to slide down. I had a little girl with me that thought it was the greatest thing. Come to find out it was a dead elephant that we were sliding down. The ground was too frozen to bury her. Now my question is . Is this the same winter quarters that is now the property? John Smith was still alive and living there. I used to listen to him work the horses through the wall. The place did not seem as big as the picture shows. It was the old Cole Winter Quarters.

25 July, 2005 20:42

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