Sunday, July 03, 2011

Grand Finale #5

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Posted by Buckles at 7/03/2011 05:30:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

In 1952, the show paid a local Beloit Wi trash hauler $50 to clean up everything (including the manure) on the lot after the show left. Can you imagine what it would cost today?
Bob Kitto

03 July, 2011 08:46
Roger Smith said...

The Beatty show, for one, advertised the elephant manure free for the taking, extolling its properties as an ultra-rich fertilizer. Farmers would arrive with an array of wagons that rivaled any show on the road. As often as not, their cuss-fights escalated into fisticuffs over dibs to the souvenirs.

Out behind the old Slaughterhouse, at Jungleland, we had a manure pile half the size of a football field. Most of it was elephant, so hot the steam lingered like an insistent fog. Farmers came to us, also, and one told me his land management man told him to spread this manure out over an unused section to "cure" for a year before he worked it into crop fields. Any use of it before then would destroy his crops and burn the land.

03 July, 2011 19:25
Anonymous said...

How did they work out the 1000's of coke bottles under the stands? Did the fellow who did the clean up get the deposit on all the bottles? I know on the seat wagons your feet were not so open when they had stringers and jacks and not so much trash fell under the seats. Had they started to use paper cups by this time?

03 July, 2011 20:10

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