Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus Tickets in San Diego
The world famous Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus is coming to San Diego. My husband dreams of going to a circus some day, but I really have no desire. If you are looking for tickets, it would be great if you could buy an extra one for my husband so that his dreams can be fulfilled. (just kidding…) The circus will be at the San Diego Sports Arena to show of their sweet skills. If you can’t find the tickets you want to this show at the box office here are the places to shop for after market tickets:
1. AIW Tickets always has a great inventory and usually has the cheapest prices too.
2. Stubhub is an excellent place to shop online as well.
They’ll even let you sell your tickets there.
3. TicketsNow is also a solid after market ticket vendor and usually has access the hard to find tickets
4. If those aren’t cutting it for you try a couple of these ticket vendors as well:
Here is what wikipedia has to say about the circus:
The Ringling Brothers Circus began in 1884 using the title “Yankee Robinson and Ringling Brothers”, the only time the Ringlings ever gave themselves second billing. It was a small circus at first, conveyed by wagons, and differed little from scores of other little shows that transversed limited geographic areas.
By the late 1880s, however, the circus had established itself as one of the largest and best-run circuses in the country. John Ringling served as the advance man and Charles Ringling assumed the role of the manager. True to the typical hyperbole of the day, the official title of the circus was the “Ringling Brothers United Monster Shows, Great Double Circus, Royal European Menagerie, Museum, Caravan, and Congress of Trained Animals”.
What distinguished the Ringling Brothers Circus from others was its honest and fair attitude toward the public. Unlike other small circuses of the time, Ringling Brothers would not allow ticket sellers to short change customers, nor did they allow games of chance such as Three Card Monte and shell games on their lots. This reputation for clean dealing and good value brought them success, and soon they were able to make the leap into the ranks of railroad circuses.
In 1889 two of the Ringlings went to Philadelphia where they purchased railroad cars and parade equipment from Adam Forepaugh, a venerable showman who had a show on the road since 1864. (Ironically, Forepaugh did allow all the crooked enterprises the Ringlings would not.)
The significance of this change in transportation was that henceforth the circus wasn’t limited to moving only 15 to 20 miles a night, and could now skip the really small towns that contained a limited audience in order to play larger towns day after day, therefore, greatly increasing the average revenue.
In 1907 the brothers purchased the Barnum & Bailey circus and ran the two circuses separately until they merged them into one unit in 1919 when they also moved the winter quarters to Bridgeport, Connecticut.
George Auger, a Ringling Brothers circus giant who used the stage name “Cardiff Giant”, was to act in Harold Lloyd’s 1923 comedy film Why Worry? but died shortly after filming started, sparking a nationwide search for a replacement.
