White elephant #3

White elephant 10 003, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

From Capt. Snug

March_2010_Florida_092, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Observed this pick up in Green Acres FL., and as long as the truck was running, the elephant's head was moving.

Pretty Nifty!

Scan12720, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Longfellow Gardens #1

Scan12728, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Minneapolis. Minnesota Prof. R.F. "Fish" Jones "What a handsome lion! The Professor looks quite sharp too." Buckles

Longfellow Gardens #2

Scan12726, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Bill Bernard "The name above was all my dad wrote on this post card but it now comes to me that he used to swap pictures with a fan named Bernard. Be that as it may, today's cat trainers don't quite have yesterday's flair! Buckles

Longfellow Gardens #3

Scan12721, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Capt. Hart...... (Lindhardt)

Unidentified

Scan12722, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Louis Roth

Scan12723, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Thousand Oaks #1

Scan12725, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Thousand Oaks #2

Scan12727, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Thousand Oaks #3

Scan12724, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Melvin Koontz and "Jackie"

Hagenbeck Tierpark

SAVE1204, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. This is from one the catalogs of animal acts that were trained and then sold world wide.

From Don Covington

c9799b_ltpBobbo032310, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Like a duck to water, Bello the Daredevil Clown provided stunts and laughs for Boston and Cambridge yesterday along the Charles River - giving a sneak peak of the fun to come when the Big Apple Circus opens for audiences next month. Bello Knock and Grandma the Clown commandeered the Boston Duck Tours duckboat and picked up some passengers from the Museum of Science for a 20 minute tour that was more screwy than scenic as the clowns’ antics included Bello bravely wakeboarding the basin of the Charles River. The 32nd season of the Big Apple Circus opens on Saturday, April 3 and will run through May 16 under the Big Top at City Hall Plaza.

Howes Great London 1920 #1

Scan12709, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. The previous year 1919, Jerry Mugivan and Bert Bowers, owners of the John Robinson Circus, joined Ed Ballard, owner of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus to form the American Circus Corp. In 1920 both of these shows remained on 30 cars and a third unit was framed on 15 cars and named Howes Great London Shows, a title often used by Mugivan and Bowers in the past. For the new show three elephants were purchased from William P. Hall, "Lockhart Nellie", "Barnum Alice" and "Wallace Lizzie" plus a young male from Sangers Midgets "Toto". Joe Metcalf was hired as elephant boss while Chris Zeitz remained with John Robinson (10 elephants) and Bert Noyes with H-W (10 elephants).

Howes Great London 1920 #2

Scan12719, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Written on the back: "Howes Great London Circus, Eastport, Me. July 5th 1920." Farrell On an overcast day the Howes Show parade wagons are lined up on the midway headed off the lot. Buckles

Howes Great London 1920 #3

Scan12716, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. My dad wrote on the back: "Howes Great London Shows- 1920 #1 Band Tableau, rebuilt from old Dode Fisk Mirror Tableau." From Otto Scheiman

Howes Great London 1920 #4

Scan12713, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. From Otto Scheiman

Howes Great London 1920 #5

Scan12712, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. From W.W. Tyson

Howes Great London 1920 #6

Scan12715, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. From Otto Scheiman

Howes Great London 1920 #7

Scan12711, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.