Sells Floto Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
Sells & Floto Circus air calliope, 1917 Atlanta, Georgia. Photo taken during parade.
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Selle Floto Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
Poorly written on the back of this photo is Johnny Agee and Jay Smith, 1931. On the right of photo I believe Jay is the younger brother of Mark Smith, horse trainer as well. It looks like a lady in the left buggy……… John Herriott might be able to help out her.
Thanks John for your comment
Sells Floto Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
The shows light plant. This is a Beardsley photo taken Saturday, June 4-1929 Attleboro, Mass.This according to his writing on the back of photo.
Sells Floto Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
Photo taken during circus parade 1917 Louisville, Ky. There is one more photo like this one later into the circus blog. I just discovered this second photo and thought I should post this one as well. The person on the horse in both of these photos is quite ridged. It leads me to wonder if the person is a manikin?…………..The wagon is called “Our Country”. I think that it would be appropriate at this day and age, to have our circuses to be a little more patriotic.
Sells Floto Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
Sells Floto Circus parade in Santa Cruz, Calif, May 10, 1918.
Sells Floto Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
The circus back yard during set up and tear down is driven by organized confusion. Everything has its place and everything is placed perfectly into what becomes the circus. Nothing can quite compare to the rhythmic synchronization of the show. So why is it that we are disparaged so often in the media and ridiculed by politicians? They can not comprehend the invisible pieces of our puzzle. Like magic we appear, and in a few hours we disappear, only to reconstruct the circus puzzle again in another city. And with their ignorance, they are trying to destroy our culture by tearing down our integrity and fabricating atrocious tales about the treatment of our beloved animals. The mistreatment is of their imagining. It is conjured up in their sick minds. They have tormented us on our circus lots with slanderous posters. They harass us unlike any others group of people have has been harassed. We now even have some animal-less circuses who agree with these people for there own political and financial well being. YOU KNOW WHO THEY ARE. I believe that a committee of animal trainers and circus people in general should go to Washington. Perhaps we should march in full spec, give them the show and the truth. The politicians have never been confronted by us and it is time for our side to speak up. I myself am speaking to my local representatives and they are listening because WE VOTE TOO. Well I guess I better finish my rant. It is just that I become very upset at times when I hear through the grapevine the garbage that is being said about the circus and the wonderful people within its fold. The day will come when, “The Sands Of Truth Will Find The Cracks.”
Al G. Barnes Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
This wagon is set on the wheel runs and is slowly being unloaded. The safety pulley line is faintly visible attached to the front of the wagon. This tethers the wagon, so there is not a run away.
Al G. Barnes Circus
Posted By thecircusblog on July 19, 2012
Here you see a Mack truck pulling a loaded cargo trailer. There was no drive shaft in those trucks–they were chain driven. The chain ran from an exterior drive wheel to the back axle as seen here. there was no such thing as an inner tube in those days. The wheels then were hard rubber fastened by heat and stretched over the steel rim.
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