Dear Sarah Sa,
My experience is similar to Didge...you could go to the carnival and the circus locally every year in the 1950's when I was a child, and grew up with movies like THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (1952) and DUMBO (1941).
And I am wondering if circus, as we knew it then, may be fading into history now...as media changes...
The circus doesn't seem to get much media coverage in my part of the world except locally when a circus visits a particular locality.
When I was a kid (back in the 1940s) it was different and several circuses (Worth's Circus and Bullen Bros Circus were the two biggest) visited my suburb every year. There was even a popular radio serial (we didn't get TV in Oz till 1956) called Hagen's Circus.
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