Clyde Beatty in Los Angeles
Posted By thecircusblog on April 30, 2009
Can you imagine playing 18 days in downtown Los Angeles for this length of time at this day and age with a tent show!
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1957 – the first year that the Clyde Beatty Circus was motorized (off of rail cars). The same lot – at Washington and Hill Street – was used by tented circuses for many years including Al G. Barnes, Ringling Barnum and the Clyde Beatty RAILROAD Circus. Today the site is a few blocks from the Santa Monica/Harbor Freeway interchange and a short distance from the Staples Center Arena – now home to the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus during its annual visit to LA.