Wednesday, June 09, 2010

THIS WAY TO THE BIG SHOW #7


Scan12994, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 6/09/2010 05:45:00 AM

4 comments:

Richard Reynolds said...

This is Hagenbeck –Wallace, 1933 in Cincinnati. Owing to lot size constraints, the menagerie could not be set up parallel to the big top, as the show liked.

They preferred having the performing cat cages inside the menagerie with the tunnel or chute leading from the menagerie into the performance arena. That meant the menagerie had to be parallel to at least a part of the big top.

Here the cat cages had to be outside the big top. The menagerie has 8 center poles so without the numerous performing cat cages inside, it would have had a lot empty space.

09 June, 2010 17:42
Anonymous said...

Does anyone know how large the herd was this yr - and who was on it ?

It's to bad u can't see even 25% of this size herd of ele' traveling 2day !

How many at max can RBBB travel with ? and how many do they actually have currently ?

Buckles - I know I have seen ur pics - with a pretty large herd - how many where traveling when u where there ?
How many cars would u need to pull it off ?

Timmy

09 June, 2010 19:34
Buckles said...

Cheerful Gardner had 29 elephants with H-w in 1933 but it wasn't necessarily by design.
As the Great Depression took it's toll on John Ringling's circus empire H-W would absorb elephants from her sister shows as each folded.
7 from the John Robinson Show in 1931
and 9 more from Sells-Floto in 1933.
The apex was 31 elephants in 1934.

09 June, 2010 19:59
Anonymous said...

Does someone know if this lot was a re-development site, or the levee on the Ohio River?

10 June, 2010 09:19

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