RINGLING BROS CIRCUS WinterHome CIRCUS WORLD Training Grounds | Baraboo, WI
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- RINGLING BROS CIRCUS Winterhome CIRCUS WORLD Training Grounds | Baraboo, WI #baraboo #ringlingbroscircus #circusworld #circus #wisconsin #circusmemorabilia
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Jordan, like you I'm a long-term Ringling Brothers fan who saw their shows regularly. For my parent's 50th wedding anniversary in 1993 I wrote a letter to Ringmaster Jim Rigona asking if he could arrange something special during our visit. Three weeks later I received an answer from him [postmarked from the Circus train!] with a backstage pass enclosed saying he'd be delighted to meet us. Before the show on that very special circus-day we were escorted from our seats to backstage where Jim greeted us and posed for pictures before giving both my Mom and Day their own ringmaster's whistles in black velvet boxes complete with the famous circus logo printed in silver on the lining! And as he circled the ring in the show opening, he even tipped his top hat to us! PURE CLASS! These are just a few things that made Ringling Brothers such a GREAT American institution! And I mourn the loss of those amazing performances to this day.
I bet your parents never forgot that day. So nice of you and Ringling Bros.
Amazing...Story. Thank You. XO.
Thank you so much for sharing such a beautiful story!!! Ringling Brothers Circus was an institution that will forever be missed and mourned.🥹
That was an amazing tour. From the posters to the cars, they are truly works of art. Thank you so much for taking me along. Loved every second.❤
One of the most memorable vacations we took as a family was to Sarasota Circus Hall O Fame,this was in 1965-66.I saw the memorabilia from Jumbo,Gargantua,TomThumbs Wedding carriage and photos of the wedding as well.All of the training areas for the trapeze artists,the animal acts,the beautiful costumes,the wagons,the circus organ,train cars,the clown cars,clown costumes,paint kits they used on their faces,a picture museum of the tragic history of the Wallenda family, it was all so magical and mesmerizing and I never forgot how amazing it was.Thank you Jordan for this vlog.Quite often your videos bring back good memories.
Thanks for bringing back childhood memories, Jordan. Bought a chameleon pin there in the late 60s. It was alive, tied with a string leash and a safety pin you would wear on your shirt.
Great memories I got to see the greatest show on earth in Hershey PA probably in the 60's it is still a great memory, thank you Jordan
I took my kids to the three ring Barnum and Bailey Circus back in the 1990s in Fresno California. I’m so glad I did! What a show.
Jordan when I was about 10 years old I was living in Orlando Fla. and had the greatest time getting to go to the original Ringling 3 ring circus I think I was in heaven. This video is so special to me.
I grew up with Ringling Bros and loved them, got so exited when they would come to twin m, in those days my parents would drop us off and pick us up later. Now that I’m older and realize how awful it was for those animals it breaks my heart, animals are not toys we just didn’t know better then😿💔😿My memories are happy of those days always just couldn’t wait for the big tent ty for this great memory😎🐾
I love it when you get excited makes me smile
Being a Ringling myself I love Baraboo and been to Circusworld many times. 😁 You should be there in June for the Circus Parade. Sadly it was the last year for elephants in the parade or on the grounds.
My name is Craig Dennis i watch your new videos all the time i in joy all of your videos all the time you have a nice safe rest of your week and you take care today👍👍👍👍👍🙂🙂🙂
Holy cow was this amazing!! So sad when the Vlog ended. We truly couldn’t believe how beautiful everyone of these carriage and train cars are. So well preserved so ornate, and all the detail and every single one everyone you showed I thought was the most beautiful and tell you showed the next one just simply incredible. What a neat place to be able to see and we definitely added this to our bucket list if we ever get up in that area.🥰💕
just a great place I all ways learn so much from you thank you stay safe out there
Jordan says he loves the picture of the lady being shot out of a cannon. That reminds me of the video beginning you see sometimes on older videos of Jordan and Jah getting shot out of the cannons.
I love the clown trash cans. Interesting video. I went to the Shrine circus when it came to town. We got the afternoon off from school. It still comes to town. Those wagons and posters were beautiful.
Its been a long time since I've been to the barnum and Bailey circus. I had a lot. of fungoing to the circus.Thanks for taking me along with you today in this video.
Looks like the greatest circus museum on earth!
Jordan you out did yourself with this one. I love the circus and everything about it. This was so cool and I know you saw much more, so you must have been in heaven. Thanks so much for showing us the circus.
What a delightful vlog, Jordan. The memories that you have reminded me of as a child. ❤ My father took me every year to see the Ringling circus 🎪. And ride the elephant 🐘. You have left a smile on my face and a joyous thrill in my heart. Bless you. 🎉
❤ the circus another cool video Jordan and it looks pretty there. Thanks again for sharing.
From one circus fan to another. TFS
Welcome!!
I live in the area and love going to the museum!
Jordan what a wonderful video I really enjoyed it, this was so much to watch.
What a great video! I would watch this again
Fascinating!
I remember going to the circus when I was a kid. My favorite has been the trapeze artists.
Wow, that was incredible! Fantastic museum, they should present it better, some great stuff!
Loved going to the circus when I was younger
thank you jordan for taking us on a tour of the circus museum it brought back memories of when the circus would come to los angeles i was very fortunate to have the opportunity to see a live show it was fantastic i wish the circus was still going on it was the best family entertainment of all time
Really enjoyable vlog. Brought back memories of how exciting it was when the circus came to town. Loved the elephant shaped ticket booth. Thank you Jordan.
I love the cat act room. My mom took to the Ringling Bros circus when I was little at the old River front Coliseum in Cincinnati Ohio. We saw that and Sesame Street Live at that coliseum I also went to that coliseum a few years ago and met the survivors of the who tragedy. A lot of people died at that concert
What a great vlog! You take us to places we probably will never get to travel to! Love circus stuff. Best circus movie ever made - Greatest Show on Earth! Think it’s on Prime. Thanks for taking us along on your travels.
I enjoyed watching the circus train come into Milwaukee when I was younger. Then on the weekend they would have the Great Circus parade. Sad that this doesn’t happen anymore.
The circus always took me away to use my imagination of better times and anything is possible
I loved the circus as a kid too, so much fun. This was an institution! I would really like to see this place in person one day , thanks for taking us along! The wagons all decorated were amazing to see
How amazing to see the winter home of Ringling Brothers. Thanks Jordan.
Awesome! I loved every second of it! A must see in person and a good family price, too! A beautiful place to explore and learn! Thank you Jordan!
my grandfather used to take me to the ringling bros. and barnum and bailey circus every year until his death. i always have and still do love the circus.
Oh wow. I didnt know they have a museum for the circus.
I loved the circus and last time I seen the circus was with my firstborn grandson...it was wonderful sharing that experience a few years ago...too bad its gone now. Some of my best memories were made at the circus and my family sitting on wood benches watching in amazement
Wow what a great vlog this is a great place to see so many things to see the way that they have done this is amazing so much history of a famous circus which started all the rest of them this circus was huge this was well worth the money you paid to see it and all the artwork is amazing they don’t make things like that anymore really enjoyed this vlog thanks Jordan for taking us on this ,journey
This is one of my favorite videos from you. I loved it. 😅
Thanks! It's an interesting place!
Hi Jordan, lovely seeing some of these original items. What beautiful posters and old photos. I haven't been to a Circus since I was a kid. Great vlog Jordan.
Bring back memories thanks Jordan
Cool place! Thanks for showing all of us around.
What an awesome vlog! Loved going to the circus as a kid! Thanks again Jordan for taking us to the coolest places. ~Love&Light♥️C.
I remember my parents taking me to see the Ringling Brother circus in the 80s and it was awesome
JUST WOW !!!!! 😯 All that for Eleven Bucks !! This is Amazing to see, THANK YOU, Jordan !! Our Uncle took us to RINGLING BROS. back in 1973 in Washington, D.C. HUGE SHOW TENT !!! This was the Most Amazing Show ! The tent was set-up by a Rail Yard where we saw an unbelieveable Long Train with all their transport cars. Just AMAZING !! Well Done, Sir ! Still trying to figure out how they stuffed Twenty Clown inside of a VW BEETLE !! 😊
Awesome tour Jordan they are alot of amazing things it was well done
When we were at Circus World a few years ago. They mot moly had the live circus performance and animal rides. They had a demonstration of how the horses loaded and unloaded the circus wagons on the train cars
As always Jordan , your guess was completely correct. Benzini Bros WAS the fictional circus featured in "Water for Elephants". The wagons you saw were props from the movie. What gave it away for me was how much newer and plainer they looked compared to the originals.
Thank you for confirmation! I was sure I'd seen them before..
@@DazewithJordantheLion: Actually, what popped into my head originally was that "Benzini" et al, could be the name of the Memphis law firm Tom Cruise worked for in "The Firm", but it was actually: [Bendini", Lambert & Locke].
P.S. Regarding "Calliope", your 2nd guess was the right one. It's: {Kuh+ Ly + Uh + Pee}
(which is how Bruce Springsteen sang it in [Blinded by the Light]... "the calliope crashed to the ground.")
Thought I saw a story about where the small performers and Hollywood actors had a bar in their southern winter break area. Everything was miniaturized for them. Low bar, small bar stools. The was a rumor in the 1980's in Wisconsin about a town called Hauchyville, just for small people. They didn't allow strangers in that town. Probably urban legend. Another semi hot spot in Wisconsin is the Witch Laidy's house on Lake Michigan. Her husband (and maybe son?) went off to sea never returning. She made wild artwork. Little north of Milwaukee. She really wasn't a witch. Stalin's daughter lived in Spring Green. That is a good story too. Ben Marcus who was head advertising guy for one of the major brewers. He brought the Circus parade to Milwaukee for decades. Also, the Marcus theater chain. I coincidentally about same time in the 90's dated his beautiful granddaughter few times, small world I let her in the building a few times). Anyways I was security guard at his condo building The Newport. He would visit me in the lobby and tell me about Ernest Borginine who was Grand Marshall of Circus Parade and personal friend. He knew I was a musician and spoke of Dizzy Gilespie or Satchmo recording in his apartment on his reel to reel. He still had the tapes. All the big stars coming through town in the 1960's he pretty much sponsored or advertised being his brewery was involved in in some way. His wife was physical wreck from early on in their marriage. He stuck by her for better or worse. Good man.
Cool👍
Wow. I had no idea this existed. Thank you for showing this to us Jordan!
I saw a documentary on the baraboo years a long time ago, and this did not disappoint at all... I learned a lot here.. the whole town is worth a stop! I'd love to have a time machine to see that town during the years the circus grew
Wow this place has changed since I was in 4th grade. Nice to see place in my backyard
Many of those antique wagons can be seen in C.B. Demille's 1952 THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH which remains today the best circus movie ever made. In that film you'll also see "Jennie" the Elephant and both legendary clowns Lou Jacobs and Emmett Kelly.
Great info!!
That was AWESOME!!!
Glad you liked it!
Wow I haven't been there since I was a kid! I need to go back there! Thanks for the great video!
woohoo being from Wisconsin . I loving all these Wisconsin videos Jordan . every year we used to go to baraboo to the circus museum when we were kids it was so fun I was wondering whatever happened to it I was hoping it was still around and thank you Jordan for taking us here❤this brings back child memories
23:20. I saw the very last Ringling train parked near the approaches to my office about 5 yrs ago. It seemed to go for miles. They had flatbed cars with semi trailers and sleeper cars. They would unload the gear, put it in the trucks then shlep a couple miles to the Coliseum across town. Back in the day, the Circus took advantage of the trip from rail yard to the tent by making a parade out of it with fancily decorated wagons etc.
Ringling, Oklahoma at one time was a stop for the circus.
That was amazing, thank you.
The grandeur of days gone by. To be able to go back in time to see the circus then. Thanks for the museum tour!!
This was a great museum. Are used to love to go to the circus Wisconsin offers quite a lot thank you Jordan for the video I loved it.
Wow that place is awesome thanks
Beautiful display😊😊😊
Never got to go to a circus so thanks for this tour have a great week
I got some old programs from going to see them in Tampa Florida . I enjoyed going to the see them .
Awesome as always Jordon!!!
Hello Jordan it’s nice to see you visiting all the places in Wisconsin I am from here and when I was a kid growing up in the 60s our school took a field trip to the Ringling brothers museum and we saw the circus of course and we could still ride on the carousel I am glad to know that the prices are still a good value and in the Dells after school is out this is the 90s when my kids were in school if they got an a on their report card you could go to the Dells and get in a ride for a dollar for all kids that got an a on their report card thanks
Wisconsin native here!!! This place was a rite of passage basically for school field trips growing up. Attended one with my child when she was in kindergarten. Super neat place!
Tremendous. ! Sincerely from, Portland, Oregon. (love...from one of your 1st Subs; Thanks for the HollyvvoodStories - bless you).
How neat! I died laughing at the end!
Fantastic tour Jordan! I haven't been to the circus in like decades!
Always fun vlogs, you always take us to the coolest places
one of the best vlogyouve done! Absolute fun!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Finally, got to go to the Circus !!
Enjoyed again Jordan, learned something new always thought they winter in fla, egg on my face😅
One place I have not checked out in Wisconsin yet. I really need to get up there in check this place out. It always amazed me when I seen it in brochures. ❤
Great Vlog well researched to bad cannot take my grandson to see the real Circus w/the animals
Little late to this. I worked in wagon restoration there for 12 years. The Berzini wagons were used in the movie as props. The glass sided wagon was the snake den. Women would ride in it with big boa constrictors. Should have gone in the building across from the wagon pavilion. That's where the restoration shop is.
Love how you're still enjoying Wisconsin!!!
House on The Rock next? It's pretty amazing 👍👍
I went there less than a year ago. Not going again this trip
1920s here in Culver City we had the Barnes city zoo circus, strange to think that since Culver City is so populated now.
A few other cool places to check out in our area is House on the Rock and Frank Lloyd Wrights Taliesan
The home of Charles Ringling is a bed and breakfast in Baraboo. It's very nice!
Jordan you should go to Ringling museum in Sarasota Florida. It’s so beautiful
If you are still in Wisconsin and come this way you might like to check out the hearthstone house in Appleton:) also the museum in Milwaukee:)
I live a half hour from St Thomas Ontario where Jumbo passed away due to accident. There is a Jumbo statue on the site.
Makes you wonder who on earth would choose Wisconsin to overwinter 😬
I always thought Florida was their winter home. What about the Museum in Bradenton Florida, I remember going to it as a child and believe it's still there. ❤
found out in a family history project, i'm actually a distant relative of John Ringling!
Thank you Jordan, this video brought back memories. When the circus came to town it was a big deal to go down to the train and watch the animals being unloaded.
PS, did you ever meet Huell Howser?
I hope you made it to the :House on the Rock" too.
Last year
Do you think you might be able to do something on the new (newish) punk rock museum in Las Vegas? I think it is completed. It was put together by Fat Mike from NOFX. Might be kind of cool. I wouldn't be surprised if he talked to you about it. Oh, and I should mention that I'm not affiliated with it in anyway except that I'm an old punk (suppose I could put on a display as a relic of a by gone Era). Thanks, love your show. Ric
I already did when it opened
To elaborate on Jumbo the Elephant. The only part of his remains to survive in the fire was his tail and the rest of his remains are preserved in an old peanut butter jar locked away in a safe
I just remember going to the circus 🎪 when I was 7, I saw them hitting the animals, I never liked it again, I left feeling so sad
really really old wooden animals for those merry go rounds are very very expensive now
Omg the elephant house just breaks my heart. What an unbearable existence for them
As a child I was amazed to see them however as I grew I found out they weren’t very kind to the animals. It’s very sad that still today people will pay to see animals held in a circus , what an awful life for those wonderful animals. It should be outlawed to have them in a circus.
HEY! JORDAN,,,,,
I went to the circus about 20 years ago and somehow came home with a rash all over me lol. Never happened before of since
Maybe the people you were sitting next to
Jordan, ❤️ how you give us all the background info for wherever you visit. You are a great Traveller and Historian 😊 👏🏼🫶