Monday, July 03, 2006

Post Card #4/ "The big top in moonlight"


This card is dated 1930 in Hornell, N.Y. however I can't identify the show.

Posted by Buckles at 7/03/2006 05:34:00 AM

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A very beautiful, peaceful picture. Almost heavenly. Who ever took this had a deep love for the circus.

03 July, 2006 09:33
Anonymous said...

This photo has it all. The poetry, the allure. There comes the old compulsion to run away and join out all over again.

03 July, 2006 13:22
Anonymous said...

Beauty in the beholder's eye, let's see now we have a top either a 90 or a 100 ft. with three 40's, a bale ring, a rather large tent (if a truck show) canvas is snow white which means it's new. Sun or moon shining through the clouds. By the way the sidewall is dropped at the ends it's possibly a humid day. Being a new tent and so many clouds I would say the owner has already woken up the tent crew to guy out the top. A rope tent for sure, the crew is now driving the storm stakes that they have convinced the boss they didn't need that day. Sure enough it starts raining. The owner of the show is hoping the photos he took earlier that day turn out good, as he knows after they drop the tent this same night, the shiny white tent will lose some of Its glee!
The tent crew is now aware they're going to be unlacing and diapering a wet mammoth. As you may now guess the beautiful, peaceful, heavenly, poetic allure of the mighty big top can be over powering especially when you don't have a full tent crew!
Been there done that.

03 July, 2006 21:15
Anonymous said...

There's something about waking up on a two or more day stand, and everthing is already up, no travelling, no set up - ah bliss. Just clean up the horses, maybe some practice and you're done til showtime. I always wondered why long stands were so effective in Europe, but in the States everything got set up and torn down daily. No wonder their tents and equipment remain so beautiful. I can't imagine anyone setting up 40 box stalls for horses, big exersize cages for cats and exotics (like Knie and Krone do) for one day stands.

04 July, 2006 15:29

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