Circus/Zoological Menagerie History 101--Get your notepad's ready kiddies.

This is the Frigidaire-Polar Bear float in the 1934 Hagenbeck Wallace street parade. It is the same wagon used to haul sea elephants Goliath and Colossus around the big top on RBBB in 1928-31 and perhaps Sells Floto in 1932. It was in Peru because it had been sent up there with Colossus for Sells Floto.

It was a promotional deal for Frigidaire. One of its refrigerators was mounted right behind the drivers and the rear of the wagon held a multisided cage with a polar bear inside.



Courtesy of Professor Richard Reynolds