Unlike so many other projects posted here, this one - while having taken a while to complete - was actually just finished up last week. As I've said, this was not a restoration but rather a repair. All the components have been re-glued, a new sub-base added, and reins from thread attached. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
We're not quite through with Baraboo just quite yet. Today we'll look at some odds-&-ends photos of wagon details. Part of the museum's displays are carvings surviving from wagons that are now lost but one of the other things I found fascinating was the detail work that went into the wagons themselves. Some detail pics have already been shown here on the blog, these here were just random photos I took but never took notes as to what wagon they came from. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
I had these two post cards in the same photo album as my Baraboo photos, but there were no corresponding photos from Baraboo. So now I have to wonder: did I actually see these at Baraboo and just didn't take photos OR are they post cards I purchased just because? Oh hell, who cares! LOL Enjoy! Opa Fritz
Sells-Floto Ticket Wagon
from the Circus Wagon fan-atics fb group:
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This wagon was on the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus after the
Sells-Floto Circus was closed following the 1932 season. When the
Hagenbeck-Wallace show went belly up in California in 1938, Louis Goebel and
the Studios got almost all of the wagons. By renting wagons to studios, Goebel
saved many of these wagons and eventually donated them to the Circus World
Museum. Millions of dollars was spent by the Jos. Schlitz Brewing co. to
transport these wagons from California to Baraboo and then restore them.
It's safe to say there were a lot of wagons at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Here's yet another round of photos. Enjoy! Opa Fritz
Ringling Bros. Temple Float (reproduction)
Yet another batch of wagon photos from The Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin. Enjoy! Opa Fritz