"There's no Business like Show Business". This is an opportunity to share and present Circus History with others.
Monday, June 23, 2008
Donaldson Litho Co. has a Circus for sale.
Here we see a complete circus for sale through the Donaldson Litho Co. Were they holding a lien for unpaid paper, who knows. It happened many times. ( If you double click the ad, it will enlarge enough to read. ) I don't know which show it was and don't want to speculate either. The ad appeared in the Billboard on June 6, 1906 on page 56.
I performed from 1973 to 1995 with a couple years off in between. I did an aerial cradle act for three years, low wire as a clown, trained llamas, ponies, then lions and tigers for 15 years. I am now a firefighter, a member of the Circus Historical Society and an author of several circus and carnival related subjects.
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