Saturday, March 05, 2011

Pan American Shows #3


Scan13287, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 3/05/2011 06:03:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cross-wise loading goes way back in circus history. It's best remmebered from the Sells 50-cage menagerie and a W. W. Cole sale ad. In latter days they were photographed on the Cole show of the 1930s. The methodology was surely not popular with the train crew, who reportedly responded to the the unifying call of "raise yer backs" to get them turned 90 degrees for unloading. Thus the derivation of their name, "razorbacks."

05 March, 2011 08:02

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