Howe’s Great London Circus #1
Posted By thecircusblog on April 6, 2012
This photo is the lion tableau band wagon 1921.
A must read comment by Darryl Ferges.Thanks Darryl for your comment.
For those in our business who had family back then, we fully understand just how tough it was. I have listened with awe the stories about the old days. True stories told by my Father,uncles and my grandfather as well as many old timers……… They are all gone now and may God bless them…. IVAN
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Hey Ivan these shots of wagons and performers sure capture how rugged it must have been in that time. They didn’t have RVs and I wonder about living conditions on the road then. Mud and mud and not too much pavement and just getting costumes and everything show ready must have taken lots of their time. In our time we got to see great improvement in equipment for “life on the road”.
My family took care of the horses. John Coss from Indiana, and he was with Howe’s London Circus in 1877. I am looking for any information.