A friend sent this older photo, Interesting wooden tubs.
"Harder to do the handshake on the ground.
We stepped off the tubs so the elephants would have the exact same distance every time.
Smokey told me that wooden tubs came with the Adele Nelson elephants when Ben Davenport bought the act. He said Louie Reed would have him and Rex polish the brass bands regularly.
However the bull tubs were loaded on top of the pole wagon and unceremoniously tossed to the ground by the big top crew the following morning and in so doing were soon destroyed.
He said Ben was so mad he replaced them with tubs of iron and told Ralph Noble, "Now let's see if they can break these up!"
Buckles
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Saturday, March 28, 2015
From Chic Silber
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This resurrects my oft-told story of rolling Clyde Beatty's lion barrel off the back of 51 Prop Wagon. It was a big prop, some 4 feet in diameter, but curiously not substantially constructed. Two guys could have easily lifted it down. But the boys didn't care if it belonged to a legendary circus star or the pope in Rome--they rolled it off the back and let it drop. Each time, it wobbled around egg-shaped. We banged it back into some form of round with sledge hammers each morning, and somehow it survived. The barrel was among the Beatty props to end their days on the Jungleland stage, and to vanish as we faced foreclosure.
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