Sarasota Quarters 1956-57 #8

This is the Northwest corner of the area showing the tack room at right and the stall for Walter McLain's horse "Harold". All I ever heard the man at left called was "Chief" and one of his jobs was to toss a harness on "Topsy" and haul away the manure wagon each morning. The vehicle appeared to be an old canvas wagon that someone had added a sliding partition. Once out back the harness would be removed from the wagon pole and attatched to the partition which would be slid backward unloading the contents. "Topsy" would then pull the partition back to it's original position and return the empty wagon to the barn. TOPSY 1927-28 Walter L. Main Circus (Floyd King) 1929 Gentry Bros. Circus (Floyd King) 1930-32 Sells-Floto Citcus 1933-34 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus 1935-38 Al G. Barnes Circus 1939-56 Ringling-Barnum Circus (Leased to Sparks Circus 1946-47) 1957 Sarasota Qtrs. 1958-60 Beechbend Park - Bowling Green, KY (Charles Garvin) 1961-62 United Exposition Shows (Curly Vernon) 1963-64 Dale Madden Circus Unit 1965-66 L.R. McNeece Shopping Center Unit (Died in 1966)