Anybody interested in the beautiful wagons at Peru, Indiana should check out Bobby Cline's great blog with some great Peru circus history:
Sawdust and Spangles
That's a sad deal that there is rust leaching through the paint on a "museum exhibit"
I believe these wagons are in the John and Mable Ringling Museum in Sarasota. It seem's they got the "lesser" wagons and I am sure there is a "wild" story of circus infighting to explain how that happened.
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In the (boxing, not center) ring to duke it out were Chappie Fox needing wagons for the Circus World park (he'd done too good a job while at Baraboo to leave any old circus wagons laying about the country) and Joe McKennon for the Sarasota museum. The gem of the group was the Five Graces and that's still in the museum. Chappie really wanted the bell wagon with its built in Baraboo pedigree and first cousin kinship (I refer to the Moeller, cousins to the famous five), and he got it. I believe it even played at his funeral.
Dick Flint
Baltimore
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