Sunday, December 04, 2005

Australian engenuity #1


Just about the time I thought I had seen everything I get these pictures from Don Covington who had copied them from a book he just received from a friend in Australia about the Wirth Circus that toured from 1880 thru 1963.
This is "Alice" who has single-handedly eliminated the need for baggage horses, snubbing posts and hook ropes. She would simply climb up, with the help of a bull tub and step across from car to car, turn around and back in between the shafts that are mounted on wagons with heavy loads and walk away with it.

Posted by Buckles at 12/04/2005 07:37:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

From the April7,1956 Billboard--

UNDER THE MARQUEE!

Barbara Williams, who, with her husband, Rex, works the Norma Davenport Elephants on Cristiani Bros. Circus, was credited with helping save the lives of a woman and child last week. Between Palatka and Starke, Fla., a car rushing an expectant mother to a hospital rammed another car in dense fog and smoke. All occupants were injured. Barbara drove up a moment later, took the woman in her car and rushed thru the fog to reach the hospital minutes before the baby was born,

04 December, 2005 09:05
Anonymous said...

From the April 14,1956 Billboard--
UNDER THE MARQUEE!

North Carolina is erecting a new historical marker to commemorate opening of the first show owned by P.T. Barnum, which is said to have been at Rocky Mount, N.C. in 1836.

Elephant Trainer Wanted-- Contact: W.A. Schafer-- Schafer's Just For Fun Shows; Brownwood, Tex.

04 December, 2005 09:14
Anonymous said...

From the April 21,1956 Billboard--

UNDER THE MARQUEE!

Roxy Engesser. who again is ahead of the Jungle Rat Exhibit, visited the Gil Gray Circus several days to see her sister, Gee Gee, and her new Alaskan Huskey act.

Ray's Circus Revue, with the Ruben Ray Family, has been playing industrial shows around Canton, Ohio, and expects to be at Bill Green's bird and animal farm again this summer.

04 December, 2005 09:22

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