After 146 years, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus are about to shut down for good (with their last show scheduled for May 21). This is the right thing to do for animals — but it's also the ...

Stunt man Harold Alanza was captured balancing on one hand on a steel rod in front of the circus tent in Chicago A SERIES of stunning unseen pictures capture the American circus and actors during its ...

Francisco García loved hearing his dad talk about his life with La Carpa García, the famed tent circus that the family ran. His father talked about his childhood job selling peanuts at performances ...

The circus life is one of gaudy glamour, but it is also filled with danger. In the January 1930 issue of the magazine, Atlantic author and trapeze artist Jay Zarado wrote about the "thrills" of a ...

REDLANDS >> As the success of the YMCA’s Great Y Circus continued to grow through its early beginnings, the 1940s and 1950s brought much change. The circus went dark between 1943 and 1948 because of ...

Tom Ewalt and Ena the elephant. Ewalt's circus was based in Geneva, Nebraska, during the mid-1940s and entertained small-town crowds in eight states. Editor's note: This piece originally was published ...

Appraisal: Circus Barn Poster, ca. 1940, in Vintage Oklahoma City. Take a look as Nicholas Lowry appraises a Circus Barn Poster, ca. 1940, in Vintage Oklahoma City.

It took only one spark to destroy an entire circus. On Feb. 20, 1940, a fire destroyed the main building of the Cole Brothers & Robbins circus winter headquarters in Rochester in Fulton County. The ...

A SERIES of stunning unseen pictures capture the American circus and actors during its 1940s heyday. The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, known as The Greatest Show on Earth, wowed the world ...