Beatty-Cole 1960's-70's #4

Beatty-Cole big top int, 6-15-67, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. PHOTO 4 (Beatty-Cole big top int, 6-15-67) This is a view that is seldom seen today showing the elephants pulling up the quarter poles when Beatty-Cole played the Eastern States Exposition (now called the Big E) fairgrounds in West Springfield, Mass., on June 15, 1967. At night, these same elephants could be seen walking the perimeter of the tent, then kneeling low as a chained was wrapped around a stake after which the elephant would rise up, pulling the stake from the ground. This is a task now done strictly by mechanical means.