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Listen: The Folk ProgramCrowd watching the Circus World theme park sideshow performance in Orlando, Florida.
Image Number
Photographer
Date
Date Note
Rights
Collection
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 1, FF53
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Circuses and shows
Entertainment
Service industries--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Tourism--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Tourists--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Crowds--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Amusement parks--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Attractions--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Amusements
Entertainers--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Circus workers
Circus performers
Sideshows
Circus--Florida--Orange County--Orlando
Corporate Subject
Additional Creator
Additional Creator
Physical Description
General Note
Circus World was built in 1973 by the Felds (then owners of Ringling Bros.) to combine circus based shows and amusement park rides with a new winter quarters for the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus. It was later sold to Mattel, Inc. who sold it to developer Jim Monaghan in 1984. Sold to Harcourt Brace and Jovanovich in 1986 who shut the park down and rebuilt it as Boardwalk and Baseball which opened on February 14, 1987. HBJ sold its theme park assets (which included SeaWorld and Cypress Gardens) to Busch Entertainment Corporation on September 28, 1989 and Busch closed Boardwalk and Baseball on January 17, 1990.
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