Thursday, February 05, 2009

Barnum & Bailey 1913 lay-out


Scan11280, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

I have glanced at this picture many times but due to it's bad condition I never bothered to notice the scope of this show.
Taken in Decatur, Alabama Oct. 31, 1913, it appears that the menagerie and side show in the background are about a half mile away.

Posted by Buckles at 2/05/2009 06:10:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Both Ringling-owned troupes were on more than 80 cars for most of the 1910s. I don't know about 1913, but before the combination B&B had an eight-pole big top, a 200-round with five fifty-foot and two 30-foot middles. It wasn't fully erected at every stand. The subsequent RBBB top 1921-1938 and 1946-1947was a 200 with five 60-foot middles. That one could seat over 16,000, as it did on the record setting day at Concordia, Kansas in 1924.

Like they said on Forepaugh, go through the menagerie and turn right a half-mile ahead to get to the big top [Ole Whitey will know the exact phrase--but I wouldn't say he was there].

05 February, 2009 09:02

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