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Show Giant circus to visit Lehi North Utah County children can celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of school by attending a giant circus on Tuesday, September Sep-tember 4, at the Lehi Rodeo Grounds. All the traditional circus thrills will be on show including clowns, elephants, trapeze acts and much much more. Ford Bros. Circus is comin' to town with two performances on the day after Labor Day, at 5 and 7 p.m. Lehi businesses and the Chamber of Commerce is sonsoring this opportunity for Utah County families to enjoy an old-fashioned, tent circus, complete with animals, music, circus stars and a circus parade. Local businessman, Dale Ekins, is in charge of arrangements for the presentation of the Circus. Advance Ticket prices are $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for children. Tickets can be purchased at Lehi Drug, Free Press Office, American Fork Citizen office or Pleasant Grove Review office, Some of -the dazzling acts and attractions lined up for this all new production include Captain Harry Locker and his western specialties; the reknowned Ballantine Sisters towering above the circus rings on huge stilts in a unique presentation; trained bars, Miss Linda's Canine Calvalcade; the Flying Lunas on the trapeze; pretty girls, daring acrobats, herds of ponderous performing pachyderms, and of course, those masters of merriment Skippy and Spoofoo, the crazy clowns. In all, the performance includes many feature displays that are packed with action from start to finish. A circus parade will be held earlier the day of the circus performance. per-formance. The Ford Bros. Circus cordially invites the public to the show grounds early on circus day to ' watch the erection of the 2nd largest circus big top in North America today. This brand new, mammoth big top, was custom designed by circus impressario John Ford especially for the 1983 circus'lour. The tent was created by William W. Winkler Jr. of the Leaf Tent company in Sarasota, Florida; the ; acknowledged king of the tent I ' manufacturing business. ' This colorful canvas auditorium is i made with over 31,000 square feet of ; material and measuring 160 feet ; wide by 280 long. 224 steel and ; . wooden stakes are used to keep this I gigantic arena erect in all kinds of I weather. Also used to support this ' monstrous structure are 135 poles j ranging in length from 10 feet to 40 ; feet long. I This beautiful circus tent can accommodate close to 3,000 spectators spec-tators for each performance. Inside, there is ample space for all the circus rings and stages, the hundreds hun-dreds of feet of cable and guy lines used to support the tons of rigging and apparatus, plus still affording the public an unobstructed view of the circus performance. It takes nearly three hours, almost 50 tent personnel, and the circuses herd of elephants to pull this massive creation into the air. Come to the showgrounds earl'y on circus day, bring your camera, and marvel to the thrill of watching this giant canvas city erected before your eyes. |
