Sawdust and Spangles

I can document the Wixom Bros. Great Railroad shows being on rails in 1899 and 1900. By 1901 they were a wagon show. As you can see from the...

By the late 1940's early 1950's, the John Wixom owned Wixom Rodeo and Circus Combined Show had been reduced to a mere travelling men...

By 1960, the John Wixom Menagerie was done and over with. My dad found out that five of the cages were sitting at Zane Caverns in central O...

This is the final product a few years later. The center upright carving on the skyboards came off of a bed. All the other carvings came fro...

Hey now here's some great stuff. The original Super Circus with Mary Hartline and Claude Kischner just released 6 episodes on a DVD tod...

I guess its my turn now JIM. My computer wouldn't come back on after a re-boot yesterday. My techie says the partition is gone. He's...

To all…... It is with a heavy heart the we inform you of the passing of Bob MacDougall - long term Ringling Bros. employee and management te...

This is the Two Jesters Steam Calliope. The wagon was originally built around 1919 by Leonard Aylesworth and Charlie Luckie in Denver, Colo...

During a Christmas break, we made a trip from Ohio to Florida for a few days. While at the Ringling Museums, dad took a few pictures in the...

The local newspaper did a small write up two weeks ago on the display I put in the Library. Just to slow things down abit, our local newspa...

OK, he didn't get every detail right but for a news reporter, he didn't do too bad. You should be able to double click it to enlarge...

Many of you know that the "America" was originally a telescoping tableau on the Barnum & Bailey Circus in 1903. It was built ...

Jungleland, located in the heart of film country in Thousand Oaks, California, provided many an animal for the film industry over the years...

I don't recognize this wagon right off. Did it go to the Circus World Museum?

I take it from the parked cars that this wagon was sitting out front of Jungeland.

The grand old ticket wagon at use again. This photo was taken on the Cristiani Bros. Circus when the played Los Angeles, Ca. in 1959 near J...

Many of you know that the wagons at Jungleland were old Circus wagons with most of them having a Hagenbeck-Wallace background. Many were th...

This is the other side. I'm pretty sure this is the Arthur Bros. Charging Tiger at the Circus World Museum now. Any thoughts out there?

This slide was in my dad's collection while I was going through them this weekend. After sending it to the Ringling Historian, Dom Yodi...

My good Friend, Hal Guyon, sent this to me last night. To see some really fine circus posters go to Buckles Blog at http://bucklesw.blogspo...