Posted on 01/14/2017 7:44:36 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
IIRC, Charles Nelson Reilly was there among the crowd in the tent that day. Never again did he sit with an audience. It was too traumatic.
Afro Circus ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slMub4NtrSk
Damn, just after a woman broke the canvas ceiling.
Sad. I saw them under the canvas tent back in 1953, Denver. I still remember the elephants being used to pull up the tents.
***Great childhood memories.***
True indeed. I saw them in 1953, Denver. My kids got to go to Circus Vargas and Carson and Barnes, under their tents.
This is not a good thing.
The Circus defined human / animal interaction and provided the audience with the ability to witness wildlife close up.
I will miss my childhood.
Didn’t they use to winter in Southern Oklahoma?
***Animal rights crazies are too much of a pain in the arse.***
They, who would not go to a circus, manage to ruin everything for everyone who wants to go.
What a beautiful story.
***I stopped going when they dumped the Sideshow.***
I remember them from my youth! The carnival in town, the fat lady who also had a fire eating act! WOW!
Then the New Mexico State Fair in 1956 with their “freaks” I still remember the man who was cut off at the waist, Midgets, The “Octopus Man”, Sword swallowers. AWESOME!
Then the Blue Noses started crying about the “dignity” of the malformed people and got them shut down. They don’t realize the “freaks” often made more money than the common working man and the sideshow was their bread and butter.
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
*** one of the main reasons this circus is closing down is because radical animal rights activists***
Let’s return to the old ROMAN CIRCUS! Release the Animal Rights people into the Arena! Now release the beasts!
Both former President Bush’s, Ronald Reagan’s, and Donald Trump’s fault!
I recall going to the circus with my son - he was maybe six at the time. There were a bunch of protestors there. He asked what they were doing, and I told him about how in America we are free to protest things we don’t like - as long as we don’t get violent.
“What are they protesting?”
“Why don’t we go ask them?”
Most of them were just yelling and stuff, and we couldn’t hold a conversation.
My son picked up on that real quick - he didn’t like it. I explained to him about how they thought the animals shouldn’t be in cages, and I explained how these were not “wild” animals - pretty much just pets. “How to you think Emily our cat would do if we just kicked it out of the house?”
Also explained how I thought the circus was good at allowing people to see different animals, and bring an awareness to the various animals of the world. I’m guessing anybody that saw those amazing big cats would be a little bit more for their conservation in the wild. I always thought it amazing what those big animals could do. “Tricks” I suppose, but showed their abilities and brain power.
Well - we still have zoos, for now. Better pricing than the circus and ours is real good at getting them in their natural habitat. Although it can be hit or miss on seeing some of the animals. “See - I think that’s its ear!”
Even now in college our kids go to the zoo once in awhile.
Thanks for sharing.
The Circus was a bit different from the zoo.
I will feel bad about Ringling pulling out because that will remove all funding they have for wildlife resources around the world.
The North Carolina Zoo on the other hand is the most comprehensive outdoor area I have ever seen.
It is remarkable!
They’re just getting started.
Big cats are next. Carole Baskins down in Tampa (who runs so-called ‘Big Cat Rescue’) is probably the single most powerful and influential person in the entire animal rights movement next to Ingrid Newkirk (founder of PeTA), and she has popularised the idea of managing populations to extinction (or as she refers to it: ‘dignified extinction’).
Dignified Extinction has now become the accepted paradigm amongst the progressives.
Yeah. I’m sure they would like to get rid of the zoos too. The zoos and circuses of the world probably did a lot to promote animal rights causes by increasing public awareness of the animals. I hope they cut their own throats. I used to watch the RB circus train roll through my back yard on the Burlington RR at least once a year when I was a kid. One time I got a glimpse of a polar bear. Haven’t seen one since. This is sad.
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