Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Circus World 1977 #1 (From Eric Beheim)


CW-1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.



Today’s photos from Circus World motivated me to scan View-Master’s Circus World packet. It is copyright 1977, so these photos were either taken in 1976 or 1977. Ironically, 1977 was also the year that View-Master stopped using Kodachrome and switched over to using color print film, thus assuring that the colors in all subsequent View-Master reels will eventually fade away to red. Although these photos are faded too, perhaps Shannon can reach into his bag of digital magic tricks and restore them. Besides yourself, all the Circus World alumni who are regular contributors to the blog should be able to provide the rest of us with full particulars as to who and what is shown in these photos.
Eric

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This was the Main Entrance .

Anonymous said...

From Eric:

During the years the park was in operation, the Felds sometimes included what I believe was a little singing commercial for it in their Ringling performances. As sung by Harold Ronk it went:

IT'S A CIRCUS WORLD,
IT'S A CIRCUS WORLD,
IT'S A CIRCUS WORLD YOU'LL SEE,
THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH TO BE.