Buckles Blog: Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth #6

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Scan10066, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: It doesn't look like a circus lot and can't imagine the animals being outside and not in the menagerie. Looks like a city park and what appears to be porta johns. but looks can be deceiving.; 12 July, 2007 08:56
Anonymous said...: What appears to be porta johns are the giraffe wagon doors in the open position. Hal Guyon; 12 July, 2007 10:12
Anonymous said...: Richard Reynolds says - -

This is not B&B. Rather it is RBBB at Baton Rouge, LA on October 3, 1930. The photographer was Eddie Jackson. This is a scene in a side walled menagerie, meaning the top was not put up. I did not think there as any question as to what is behind the giraffe pen, namely the four giraffe vans, one for each. This photo is one from the many sets Jackson once offered for sale.

B&B did carry four giraffes as a regular practice in the early years of the last century. RBBB quit carrying four giraffes around 1934. Three are most I’ve ever seen. However, Barnum & London carried no less ten (10) in 1882.; 12 July, 2007 15:06
Anonymous said...: Circus lot giraffes & Porta Potties
Sounds like someone of equal historical knowledge as myself?; 14 July, 2007 11:58
Anonymous said...: Jimmy, I strongly disagree with you. Your knowledge of Porta Potties has no equal. Wade Burck; 14 July, 2007 18:29

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