Buckles Blog: Johnny J. Jones Exposition #1

Monday, June 30, 2008

Scan10345, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

The following lay-out appeared in a 1932 copy of "Circus Magazine" despite the fact that the show no longer carried elephants.

Bob Cline said...: Some of your bloggers may not know that the Johnny J.Jones winterquarters was in Deland, Florida. This is the exact same quarters now used by the Johnny Pugh Cole Bros. Circus. I believe the history says it was originally a Fairgrounds.
Bob; 30 June, 2008 07:22
Buckles said...: Anyone familiar with the Beatty-Cole quarters in DeLand is aware that the elephant barn was built within the structure of the original fairgrounds grandstand.; 30 June, 2008 07:33
Anonymous said...: Hello everyone! I have returned home for the winter.
At the North end of the elephant barn(grandstand), there was a water tank, and pen for BIG OTTO, the hippo.; 09 October, 2008 19:46

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