King Brothers Circus in United States

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King Brothers Circus
Elephants seen on West Haynes Street in Sandersville were part of a King Brothers Christian Circus parade in the 1950s.
Type	circus
Founded	1945
Closed down	1956
Place	Macon
State	Georgia
Country	United States
Related persons
Owner	1946-1950: Floyd King 1953-1955: Floyd King Floyd King

Performers & Artists
1946-1948: Pete Cristiani


Key People
Zoological department
Animal trainers
1955-1961: Toni Smaha 1955-1961: Antonin Vinicky 1954-1955: John Herriot 1950-1952: John Herriot

Elephant department
Head keepers of elephants
1955-1957: Jenda Smaha (elephant trainer)

Record history
History of updates	2021-09-13

Latest document update	2021-09-13 18:55:41

Description

King Brothers Circus, in Macon, Georgia, United States , was founded in 1945. King Brothers Circus closed down in 1956.

Comments / pictures1945: Floyd King bought the Bud Anderson Circus and much of Clyde Beatty\' s truck show.

1946: King took the circus out on tour with the title King Bros. Circus.

1950: In 1950, Norma Davenport, daughter of Ben Davenport the owner of the Dailey Bros. Circus, married Pete Cristiani. As a wedding gift Davenport gave the couple 5 performing elephants. Pete and Norma joined the rest of the Cristiani family who were working with the King Bros. Circus owned by showman Floyd King. The Cristianis then joined forces with King and the "King Bros. and Cristiani Circus was born.

1953: The Cristiani family took their own Cristiani Bros. Circus. Floyd King formed a partnership with Arnold Maley, and reverted to the King Bros Circus.
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1954: 16 elephants.

1955: they enlarged the show to a 70 truck circus. This proved too much to handle and in 56 they divided the show into two smaller shows but both closed early. The title King Bros was later sold to ACME Circus Operating Corporation, and was operated from 1960 as King Bros Circus.

1976: Floyd King died August 24, 1976 at Macon, Georgia, age 88.

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Recommended Citation

Koehl, Dan (2025). King Brothers Circus, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=762. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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