The circus has set up in Norfolk’s Scope so on this #TBT we’ll take you downtown, 82 years ago, to Granby St. when the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus paraded into town. The two mile long parade of beautiful ...

For more than 100 years, the remains of 56 performers and roustabouts of the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus lay at the Woodlawn Cemetery in Forest Park. Some were known only by nickname, such as Baldy and ...

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On the morning of Saturday, July 16, 1932, the Great Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus train lumbered into Muncie from Lima, Ohio on the Nickel Plate Railroad. Canvasmen began unloading and assembling the ...

The Carl Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus set up its tent city on Mallon Avenue, near Monroe Street, to the delight of Spokane’s youth. The menagerie tent was the biggest attraction, containing “lions, tigers ...

Sometimes the living have to guess where the departed wanted to be buried. Under a 1943 headline, “Final curtain finds Curly in the big time,” the Tribune reported the death of sword-swallower Curly ...