Hi buckles. Here are 10 more photos taken by Tom Hamilton in Columbus, Ohio in 1949. There are 30, which I will send you in lots of 10 each. Regards, Dennis J. Younger |
Sunday, November 07, 2010
1949 Ringling-Barnum #1 (From Dennis Younger)
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They would have been better off
with Robert Perry's canvas crew
to rag this saggy top
Any idea where they played in Columbus that year? I live here, and it's hard to imagine a metro lot big enough for the show! I guess things change in 61 years. :)
Ringling Columbus, OH...Mound St. lot near the baseball park...Going east to west on the interstate you can see the old baseball park lights from the interstate looking south..Saw my first performance of RBBB - 1946 on this lot...Later in the 50's moved out to the Ohio State Fair grounds..Have many memories of the old Mound St. lot..Very first RBBB autograph was Emmett Kelly - 1946 on this lot...The cemetery was next to the cookhouse. Its still there..
Ringling on Mound St.Memories.
I use to tell my parents that at times I wish they had never taken me to see Ringling back in July - 1946 in Columbus,OH. The show was late in arriving due to a train wreck coming in from Toledo. They blew the matinee and I saw the entire show set-up as a very young boy at his first circus. To this day I could draw on paper the lot layout...Guess I still have sawdust in my Buster Browns from the Mound St.lot..Just Wednesday night I saw the very first performance of Ringling Red in the new Pittsburgh Consol Center....And gave the elephants a standing ovation.. All great pictures of RBBB on Mound St.
Sorry on the location in Columbus. I don't know. Try calling Tom Hamilton in town. Dennis
1946 WOW!
Did you ever meet Ernest Haag or Rose Killian?
Great info, guys. Thanks! I remember seeing the gigantic Carson and Barnes show in the late '80s or early '90s out in Newark, OH, and being absolutely in awe of the sheer space required. By contrast, I saw the Kelly Miller show in Pataskala, OH on a small softball diamond, and a tiny mudshow (Roberts Bros?) in the late '90's on the Granville (OH) Middle school football field!
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