SNAPSHOTS: DIANO'S DIAMOND O RANCH
In the Summer of 1954, on their way to Toronto, for The Canadian National Exhibition, (a little name dropping there) Glen Martin & Co., aka George Hubler, & myself, stopped off at Tony Diano's place to visit with Smokey Jones. What a beautiful sight looking across the valley at that farm. Smokey was busy trying to put a routine together with a Hippo, & a Rhino, at Tony's request, I don't know how far he got with it. Being still pretty much a "first of May" I was quite in awe of the whole thing.
posted by 24-HOUR-MAN | 3:04 PM
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WHERE WAS IT IN CANTON?
I was also wondering where this ranch was; it certainly is beautiful. cc
Anonymous is right, near Canton, Ohio! I also remember there was a Stagecoach on the front porch of the house. I once had a dicussion with Lee Keener about Tony's wealth, I said he had an advantage, he was Italian, & he came to this country broke!!!!
what i hear, the barn is still standing. I will have to ask armando if he still know how to get to it or Bill do you still know how to get there? I still think about the times, I would be out a your farm and riding the Elephant around the farm. Also watch the Elephant bath in the river on the other side of road.
Anonymous, my memory of 50 years ago is pretty good but not that good. The memories of those days at Circus Farms are among my sweetest, it gives me such a good feeling to know how much the acts who stayed there enjoyed it. I hardly ever go to Sarasota without hearing from one of them about it!
Bill,
The memories of Circus Farms are among my best thing to grow up with. i would love to buy that farm and make it back into a circus farm again. There a WQ in Peru IN. Im also looking in to buying. Your old place mean more more to me, than the IN place. but the peru place has alot of circus history. Someday I will get one of them!!! Buzzy can help get your old place back to the way it was.
Anonymous,
Are you talking about the Paul Kelly farm? I keep hoping and praying to win the lottery so I could buy it from them. So far they have had several offers to buy it but everyone wants to tear it down and build condominiums. Dorothy Kelly said not as long as she was alive. There are 14 elephants buried out back as well the remaining Cole show equipment that is falling apart. The Cat barn needs work but isn't all that bad. The elephant barn needs some repair as well. My personal feeling would be to build a beautiful Glass type building as a Museum and Education center on one side and have the old quarters on the other. Then tie it in to the Hall of Fame so the public sees both sites. I sure hate to see it slip away.
Bob
We were actually discussing the old Diano, Diamond O Ranch outside of Canton, Ohio, but I hear what you're saying, about the old Kelly Place, and couldn't agree more.
Bob, I should learn to read before I open my mouth, the Circus Farms anonymous was talking about is the place Trudy & I had outside of Springfield Ohio. It looks exactly the same, in fact better than we left it. The only thing gone is the big Weeping Willow tree at the front of the house, there is a flag pole there now. The last I heard the neighbor to the east, (Crabtree) owns it. Check my next post.
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