On Sunday, January 15, 2017 at 1:51:38 PM UTC-5, Leon wrote:
On 1/15/2017 12:32 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 1/15/2017 12:42 PM, woodchucker wrote:
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey is closing down in May.
One of the factors .. animal rights groups.

Others declining sales. I group up being wowed by the menagerie before
the show. To me, that was the big part of the show. Getting to feed the
elephants, seeing bearded woman, the snake people, The smallest man on
earth.. The tigers...

When the elephant killed the kid years ago and that all stopped, I felt
that was going to be the end... In then end it might have been, just
took a long time.


While I hate to see a 160 year old business close, I never saw the
attraction. Went to the circus once about 60 years ago and never had a
desire to go back. Remember, it used to be two different circuses that
combined to survive. May have even been a third one swallowed up too,
Cole Bros.


I think the entertainment dynamic has changed. Kids are the target, for
the most part. Has any one seen a kid out doors lately? :~)

Yesterday morning I asked the kids next door to be careful not to drop anything
on SWMBO's car, which was parked next to the tree they were climbing. They
politely said OK.