The Ringling Circus Museum

hey everybody and welcome to another edition of where the heck are the ovens and where the heck are the elements we are in Sarasota Florida and we are at the Ringling Museum yes Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus this is John Ringling one of the Ringling Brothers this is his his Gardens his home and museum so we're gonna see all of this stuff I don't know if there is filming allowed in the mansion but we will find out but I know there's other of all their other places you can film so we are just about to go into the museum for the John Ringling Museum so let's go to the big show the main entrance Wow may all your days be circus days here comes the circus is all about advertising Snickers however time this is mostly this is the cells Brothers Circus the sparks circus and this is Barnum & Bailey before the Ringling Brothers were involved with them this is all other advertising all the different kind of advertisers that they would do it's the daily brothers xylophone playing pigs okay this is the Museum of miniatures this is the Howard brothers circus 3,800 square foot model depicts the American tented circus in its golden age from 1919 to 38 [Music] this is the largest miniature circus [Music] the circus comes to town take the train that little movie we just kind of saw that would be these things right here that we're getting taken off [Music] [Music] [Music] lovely when that hatred [Music] a tiny tent [Music] [Music] think of the size of that circus tent right there [Music] these for the [Music] the rest tempeh performers it's gotta get in shave are we shot [Music] these are all part of what they called the speck performers there were all elaborate floats and costumed animals and performance they're lined up in the backyard to enter the big top for the spectacle display so usually it was the opening of a feature show and included many people and animals as the director could costume parading around the track and in the big top it was this would be the performers entrance right here into the big top you see the big table right here [Music] this would be the performers entrance [Music] so hidden from the general public behind the big but they this what they would actually call this the big tented city they just called this the backyard this is where the performers and the staff workers just spent most of their time in between performances [Music] and then they had their private tents as well [Music] but then they also had like the big dressing the big dressing tent where everybody would get ready [Music] there's all the clowns getting their makeup on [Music] Edda at a sea elephant they would bring into the into the main tap his name was Goliath back in the day he weighed three and a three and a quarter tons and he had a special tank that he would travel there's the general parking as people will come see the circus [Music] it was a huge huge huge deal back then when the circus would come to town this this model is so detailed can you see there's wires for telephone wires but I'm a telephone poles that is incredible this is all this was all done by one man so we're about to see is the Midway this is where all the like the games and the different things like that before you actually go into the they would have concession stands and so forth so they had a sideshow and then there was also the sideshow also [Music] but here's the sideshow like a [Music] cotton candy and the ticket wagons and you saw when we first came in it said to the Big Show main entrance so you have your main entrance right here see all the way down here see them against the back [Music] and here's what it looked like inside the main one of the main tents and this was called the menagerie so this is the first place many Americans actually saw animals from other continents so you know people expected to see elephants and lions and zebras and things like that but this is the first time people saw actually saw like giraffes and hippopotamuses and other exotic animals so there also might have been like orangutangs and kangaroos and different things like that some camels so zebras things people never had seen in their life she said maybe in a school book or something like that or encyclopedia [Music] and then they had the animal food prep time so all the animals got either groomed or then they got fed they they were taken care of actually had eat and in the early days of the circus they were well fed and they were given special attention and things like that but they were actually like the Lions and the Tigers and the other carnivores they were actually fed if freshly prepared meats [Music] please face this was like all the outhouses and things like that they had a men's and a woman's the women's was on the other side this is the men's so this is this would be the men's room in the ladies room at the circus they were just part of the tents and then there was the big top so the performance tent this is the largest of all the tents on the lot it's always called the big top in less than four hours six Center poles seventy four quarter poles and a hundred and twenty-two sidewall players 550 stakes and 26,000 yarns of canvas became the big top they did it all in less than four hours that's amazing [Music] and this is where the three-ring circus kind of was was was actually invented but at any given moment action could be happening anywhere from trapeze artists to high wires anything going on in the three rings [Music] so the seating inside the big top was all usually folding chairs and it could sit up to 15,000 maybe around for the answer lions these are reserved I guess these are the reserves bandstand or the general admission yeah and all the orange ones over here where they're reserved ticket holders 50 Cent's yeah cuz it makes the one guy with taller than they look for the girl with smaller [Music] [Music] and this was the they had dog counts baby so they're tiny but and then they would train the dogs to be performers near the train the horses these are these are the craftsmen tents so if anything need to be repaired or build or anything like that or painted these are the guys that we do that [Music] Tom horses these this is like this is all part of the blacksmith tents yeah so see inside there see all the different horses and handlers [Music] and then they come down over here and this is the blacksmith town so so he carried all of the equipment needed to keep the show moving so forges and anvils not even know so forges and anvils they were set up if each lock to allow the blacksmith - you know repair wagon parts and reshoe horses as necessary so they always had a traveling blacksmith with him as well as a leather worker - so they were primarily in care of taking all taking care of all the animals part of the the harnesses kind of on the outskirts of the town now again so these are this is the tent for the called the baggage horses so along with the performing horses the circus carried over 400 baggage horses so these are the strong horses that pulled wagons and even helped raise the pulse on the canvases for the town's so when the circus came to town if you can see all these tents I mean it was a massive massive undergoing somebody's taking a group of shop and over there is where we came in so we're gonna and and the name of there for this circus the name of they're all their trains they were called the flying squadron so and they would just come in I mean look at all the different all these train cars that you see was just dedicated to just the circus I mean it goes stretches way down there that is an all and across the way over there at that is a lot a lot of train cars these are all the the the cars that carry the animals for the Howard brothers circus fascinated [Music] that was all steam locomotive back then alright so we're gonna go up to the second floor timeline of the American circus circus these are the imperial collection of rare and wild artifacts [Music] [Music] this was a portrait of PT Barnum and his wife and this was actually part of furnishings from his home this was actually their sofas sofas in their parlor and their end tables this was Barnum's silver in a base at a Chinese store this piece right here this was a calling card holder from Barnum's house and it was a blind monkey begging this hurts today or the acrobatics look at the costumes [Music] so these are all the handcrafted pieces by Harold done every single one of these card by hand I'm upstairs right now and all that thing that all the things that I took you through downstairs all the different tents and things like that they have an overview or an overlook so you can look down on it so check this out this is where we walked around the actual big top is right below us I kind of get an idea of how big this this model is there's another window opening over there so we'll be able to kind of look across it - and here are more of Dunn's hand carved sculptures cause this one the snake den well snakes the clowns and the tires well this the Swan bandwagon these were the pony floats we had red riding the Mother Goose Cinderella Bluebeard [Music] st. George and what you're adding and even Santa Claus had a pony float there he is right there so we're at that window down there's where we were standing before right above the big top yeah so look at the size of that model [Music] Lou Jacobs birdcage used in the greatest show on earth in 1952 different clowns hello [Music] it's amazing the size of these things vivy is gonna walk the wire balance and she's doing good she's 500 feet above the audience she hid there hey there's the one Dulles we were just at the Tallulah Gorge at the Cholula Falls and this is uh well this is one of the outfits you wore during the crossing of the Tula gorge we were make costumes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ride the ring like he's riding a horse [Music] but Becky I think you need to do that post right there you try to demos no let's see if let's see if vivvy could do that pose you gotta do one foot up all right there she is other arm like that and then now bring that leg forward there you go look at that she did it she looks just like the girl on the poster does Emerson want to give that a try look at this arm up I think it there it is nice Becky's me and bio tiger unfortunately this is out of order we could test the cannon and we could shoot a man into the vent into the net darn it Oh [Music] different clowns very meeting on the white face fog and the character clowns [Music] like Emmett Kelly [Music] John and Mabel Ringling actually owned a private car that was built by the Pullman Company in 1805 go check it out first part of the car is just the observation platform at the very end of the car and there's the Observation Lounge record player phonograph [Music] pretty nice digs that's just the aspiration long part it served as a drawing room and the Observation Lounge where they they could just enjoy the company of your friends stateroom there are three bedrooms on the Wisconsin friends and things like that where they could play when they were traveling so this was stateroom C B this is when they would he pulled the two chairs together and it would make him bed pretty nice its own private sink over there toilet but it did have one big bathroom to made their main bathroom actually had a big tub in it a toilet I think and the next would be stateroom a and this was actually John Ringling's private room it had a full bed small chest of drawers over there and a ward and a wardrobe with built-in cabinets over the bed pretty nice it's storage under the bed then they had the dining room and it was a space not only for meals but also business meetings and every once in a while a good spirited card game would be even had fans in the corners complete luxury and comfort cruise quarters kitchen so it looks like when the Ringling's traveled the traveled in style it was a pretty nice little car all right look at some of these here look at this I got that for the human cannonball some of the cages for the animals and I think there was some circus mares this was a ticket office got a ticket wagon that's where the tickets would be yeah sorry tickets in here take a wagon take it away again with the big safe oh the sideshow stuff yeah I know it says this was part of the museum pretty quiet these are actual things used in the circus this is like the dining they would make dinner for everybody like this guy to head the third leg the bearded lady like the tallest man time chicken man the men from Mars that was a thin man he was like the thinnest man alive Punch and Judy as the fat lady and in and Eng the Siamese twins he tried to go straight but the museum makes you an exit through the gift shop I get how you doing good walking clown nose you

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Keywords: The Ringling, The Ringling Mueseum, The Ringling Circus Museum, Ringling Brothers, John Ringling, Sarasoda Florida, Sarasoda FL, Things to do in Sarasoda, Ringling Brothers Museum, The Greatest Show On Earth

Id: UcKmoU1aoC0

Length: 37min 10sec (2230 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 27 2017