Norm and Bob Senhauser

The Sea Serpent tab was built by the Sullivan and Eagle wagon works around 1910 for the Sparks Circus where it remained until the winter of 1924 / 1925. It was then sold to Floyd and Howard King who used it on their Walter L. Main show in 1925, the Gentry Bros. Circus in 1926 and 1927, back on the Walter L. Main show in 1928 and in 1929 and 1930 it was on their Cole Bros. World Toured Shows.

After the King Bros. went bankrupt in Scottsville, KY. on Aug. 30, 1930, the wagon was bought by H.C. Ingram and Ben Rutherford who took it to Peoria, Ill. It was then sent to the Venice Transport Co. in E. St. Louis, MO. While the next few years are vague, the wagon was definitely in the Christy Bros. winter quarters by June of 1936.

It stayed in the Christy winter quarters from 1936 to 1948 when it was taken to a Chicago Fairgrounds. It stayed there from 19549 till 1951. In 1952, Norm Senhauser bought it and took it to his Urichsville, Ohio home. Norm kept if and had it in various parades and circus gatherings until he sold it to the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co. which then donated it to the Circus World Museum. The wagon is 13'2" long, 10' tall, 7'11" wide and weighs about 3 tons.