A Blog designed for discussion of topics related to, but not limited to, Circus, Zoos, Animal Training, and Animal Welfare/Husbandry. Sometimes opening up the dialog is the best starting point of all. And if for nothing else when people who agree and don't agree, get together and start discussing it, it will open up a lot of peoples minds. Debate and discussion even amongst themselves opens a window where there wasn't one before.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Vintage Dancing Bears
Circus wagon photo taken in 1974, location unknown of a wagon I have never seen before. Bob Cline, do you know where this wagon is at now?
1932 color cover for The Sportsman Magazine featuring a painting of a Bear Dance by the artist John Whorf.
The cage wagon is one of the Disney-rebuilt vehicles at Circus World Museum, the applied signage not reflecting reality. There were two that looked like this.
Best cage signboard signage: Christy Bros. "Baby Okapi," circa 1927, confirmed in an actual photograph. There was a rumor that he also had one labeled "Pterodactyl," but that may only be a rumor.
Anonymous, Thank you. The signage is what seemed questionable to me. That it was a "Disney creation" makes more sense. If a circus say's it has/had a Pterodactyl then it by God has/had one. No rumors, just facts.
Circus wagon photo taken in 1974, location unknown of a wagon I have never seen before. Bob Cline, do you know where this wagon is at now?
The cage wagon is one of the Disney-rebuilt vehicles at Circus World Museum, the applied signage not reflecting reality. There were two that looked like this.
ReplyDeleteBest cage signboard signage: Christy Bros. "Baby Okapi," circa 1927, confirmed in an actual photograph. There was a rumor that he also had one labeled "Pterodactyl," but that may only be a rumor.
Anonymous,
ReplyDeleteThank you. The signage is what seemed questionable to me. That it was a "Disney creation" makes more sense. If a circus say's it has/had a Pterodactyl then it by God has/had one. No rumors, just facts.
Wade