Phineas Taylor Barnum’s traveling menagerie was wildly popular, while the five Ringling brothers performed juggling acts and skits in Wisconsin. Grant was president and minstrel shows were popular entertainment. and Barnum & Bailey Circus announced that it will close in May, ending a 146-year run that dates back to a time before automobiles or airplanes or movies, when Ulysses S. On Saturday, officials of the company that owns the Ringling Bros. Goodbye to the scent of peanuts and popcorn, the thrill of three rings, the jaunty bum-bum-dadadada of circus music. Goodbye to death-defying feats – daring young men (and women) on the flying trapeze, whip-wielding lion tamers, human cannonballs. In May 2016, after a long and costly legal battle, Ringling Bros removed elephants from the shows and sent the animals to live on a conservation farm in Central Florida. and Barnum & Bailey Circus walk over Billy Graham Parkway on Tyvola on what used to be their popular annual trek to the old Charlotte coliseum.
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