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Stretching Out The Big Top
thecircusblog | May 21, 2010
How well I remember this job…. it seems like it was just yesterday. All circuses that have a big top have a crew of men that do nothing but set up the circus tent. Every so often we would have to split the tent crew to send them to the next town to drive stakes […]
Lacing The Big Top Canvas
thecircusblog | May 21, 2010
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus early to mid 1960’s. Lacing up the canvas is not as easy as one would think as the gramet holes and lacing rope loops have to match up or you will have to start all over again. Notice the man at the first center pole, who is tying off all of the laced sections to the bail […]
Pulling the Peaks
thecircusblog | May 21, 2010
Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus in the mid 1960’s. This is the old fashioned way to pull the peaks of a big top amd I believe maybe the best way. It’s tradition and easier with an elephant then to use a motorized vehicle. Elephants have been the most important part of the circus from the very beginning. […]
Pulling Up the Quarters
thecircusblog | May 21, 2010
After the tent on the center poles are pulled half way up they start sliding up the quarter poles to help take some of the weight off the canvas. When all the quarter poles are in their correct position, then the main block and falls on the center poles are pulled to the top or […]
Al G. Barnes Sells Flotto
thecircusblog | May 19, 2010
This was their ticket wagon. Now it sits in ruin….. gone forever. How I wish we could have saved more of our circus history. At least there is this photo to remember it by.
One Of the Best Fred Logan
thecircusblog | May 19, 2010
It pays to go to antique shops and used book stores. Here is Fred Logan and his wife Ora on the Clyde Beatty Cole Bros Circus in the early 197o’s. It is another amazing find. Fred Logan Jr. made a comment on his parents, Thanks Fred. Also thank you for the date and show correction.
Clyde Beatty
thecircusblog | May 19, 2010
Clyde Batty had the first fighting cat act of any notoriety. It was called a fighting act because of his extraordinary talent to exaggerate the danger of his lions and tigers. Without a doubt working with jungle cats is in fact dangerous but his showmanship and his total control of his cats would keep you on the edge of […]
Chester “BoBo” Barnett
thecircusblog | May 19, 2010
Polack Bros Circus 1946. BoBo did an act that would bring tears to your eyes on his finish. He would sit on a bail of hay in the center of the ring and as the lights went down low he played “Peg of my Heart” on his trumpet.
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