Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Greatest Show on Earth

The first performance of the newly combined Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus was held in New York's Madison Square Garden in March 1929. The "Greatest Show on Earth" had more people, horses, elephants and larger tents than all other circuses. Traveling circuses were wildly popular through the 1920s reaching their commercial peak during the dawn of radio and television.
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