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Al G. Barnes Circus was an American circus run by Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse. ==History== Stonehouse started his show in 1895 with a pony, a phonograph, and a stereopticon. By 1929, his circus had grown to 5-rings size and it was purchased by the American Circus Corporation. American Circus already owned the Sells-Floto Circus, John Robinson Shows, Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus, and Sparks Circus. That same year John Nicholas Ringling, the owner of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, bought out the American Circus Corporation. The purchased circuses continued to tour under their own names, but were closed one-by-one during the Great Depression except for the Barnes. The Al G. Barnes Circus added Sells-Floto in 1937. In 1938 it absorbed acts from the (Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus )] and finished the season as the Al G. Barnes and Sells-Floto Circus Presenting Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Features. However, rather than returning to its own winter quarters in Baldwin Park, California, the circus traveled to the Ringling winter quarters near Sarasota, Florida, never to emerge again. One of their more famous animals was Black Diamond, an Indian elephant whose unpredictable temper resulted in the deaths of several people and was shot between 50-100 times in 1929, before his own death. On May 15, 1922, a large circus elephant known as Tusko escaped from the Al G. Barnes Circus while it was in Sedro-Woolley, Washington. The elephant demolished fences, knocked over laundry lines and trees, telephone poles, and overturned a Model T. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Al G. Barnes Circus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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