Tuesday, January 30, 2018

#1 Al G. Kelly & Miller Bros. Circus!

Built at the Wayne Sanguin Machine Shop in Hugo, Oklahoma, this Canvas Spool revolutionized tented Circus Business!
Prior Spools off-loaded from the side and the canvas drug across rough surfaces creating damage!
Here we see Pete Smith and his Crew spooling off the second half of the Big Top!
It wasn't long before had built Spools for every Major Circus in the Country!

1 comments:

Roger Smith said...

When Terrell Jacobs' lion, Sheba, died, he placed her in a stock-watering tub, with a lid on it that resembled what you'd peel open from a sardine can. On a note about this, Colonel Woodcock offered that the coffin looked like "something whomped up by Wayne Sanquin".