Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Al G. Barnes Circus 1935 #2



Work team dragging a bale of canvas with canvas men in pursuit. Posted by Picasa

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

The enlongated tent with the squared off end, what might that be, stables?

Buckles said...

This may be just a storage tent.
I never saw anything like this on a circus lot until Trolle Rhodin started supplying the Ringling Show with Swedish Army tents for the animals.

Anonymous said...

Looks like they took about three middles and laced them together for a work shop or something> I count about ten center poles.

Anonymous said...

My grandfather Casper "Whitey" Jensen was the Boss Canvasman for Al G. Barnes until his death in Sept. 1930. The main tent pole cam down and stuck him, killing him in Mc Allen, TX.