Sunday, July 26, 2009

Modern Mechanix #4


Modern Mechanix-4, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

There is even a photo of a sea elephant in “an economical canvas tank, which stands hard wear and tear” and which was perfected by “circus inventors.”

Posted by Buckles at 7/26/2009 05:57:00 AM

1 comments:

Richard Reynolds said...

This looks like Colossus in Sells Floto’s 1932 menagerie.

Isn’t that a quarter pole angling upwards in the background. I’ve read or head it said that on S-F in ’32 the sea elephant was exhibited in the menagerie.

On RBBB from 1928 through 1931 it was kept in backyard in a canvas tank inside a tent. The RBBB patrons only saw it when it made its circle around the hippodrome track.

26 July, 2009 17:36

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