Original Ringling railroad buildings
more original buildings & old wagons
more to come this week!
The Last Summer for Baseball in Oakland ... It Feels like a Day in
Pittsrbugh Long Ago, When The Greatest Show on Earth Under Canvas Called it
Quits ...
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Sad town, soon to be without a major league team, the Raiders having fled,
so too the Golden Stage Warriors. And now the sport of Babe Ruth.
Baseball is...
4 days ago
The last 2 photos are the Ringling Bros donniker wagons #98A & B which were sold to Royal American Shows when RBBB stopped touring with the tent. Eventual Royal American donated them to Circus World Museum. For a few years the wagons were taken on the train to Milwaukee for the Schlitz Circus Parade later known as The Great Circus Parade. Deacon Blanchfield used to pull the wagons off and on the train with a cat.
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