Buckles Blog: Cole Bros. Circus 1930's #9

Thursday, September 20, 2007

Scan000010199, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Anonymous said...: Does anyone have a closeup photo of the seal den in the background of this picture. I have never seen a seal den with a bay window, thought only the hippo cage had the bay windows. I would like to build a model of this wagon. Thanks, Hal Guyon; 20 September, 2007 11:21
Anonymous said...: The Cole seal den was the former Robbins Bros. hippo den. There's a photo of it in Bandwagon, May-June 1965, page 16 (1935 Cole)and Nov-Dec 1966, page 15 (post-Robbins). It was rebuilt by 1937 into the form in which the replica Cole Bros. #28 Hippo Den exists at Baraboo.; 20 September, 2007 17:48
Anonymous said...: Built by Sullivan & Eagle for the 1903 Forepaugh-Fish Wild West, went to Gollmar, Patterson, Christy [who shortened it] then Cole. Replaced in 1939 by another wagon and the instrument was transfered. When the new wagon burned in 1940, the instrument [not the 1903 original, but a replacement] was salvaged and went into the America, #1 in this series. The remnants of the S&E wagon went to Alex Clark and are now stored in a barn on Water Street.; 21 September, 2007 08:21
Anonymous said...: I wonder if the guy standing on the wagon pole ever published his pictures?; 21 September, 2007 20:03

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