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A Great Visit to Circus Pages! % Cfierie Circus Pages played Bloomington, IL to great crowds at the Sale Barn. This is a First Class Circus! Beautiful wardrobe, fast moving, great music and the audience not only enjoyed the acts, but were really lined up to ride the camel and ponies and again lined up after the show to have their pictures taken ...
Hundreds of people from all over Central Illinois came for opening night at the Bloomington Livestock Commission Co., also called the Sale Barn. At a time when livestock was a much bigger...
16 lip 2013 · Starting in the 1870s, the barns, icehouses, gymnasiums and empty theaters of central Illinois provided the practice sites for aerial performers whose names still command reverence in the annals...
29 cze 2011 · An aerial view of the property that includes the Bloomington Livestock Commission Co., also known as the Sale Barn, in the late 1970s or early 1980s.
The Flying Wards built this iconic trapeze practice barn in Bloomington, IL in 1915. Art Concello took it over in 1935. Learn more about the rich circus history of Bloomington-Normal IL at this year's CHS Convention, August 24-27.
22 sie 2023 · Bloomington-Normal was dubbed the "trapeze capital of the world," with many of the best flyers hailing from and training in the area. The places they trained are gone, but evidence of the Twin Cities' circus past is hidden around every corner.
In the 1870s, Bloomington natives Fred and Howard Green left their hometown to join the circus. After falling in love with the trapeze, they returned home for the winter and set up some crude rigging in their father’s barn so they could practice.
