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bartje
02-09-2009, 10:56 PM
This is a very rare building, there were only a few of these in Europe.
Especially build for the circus in 1894.
Burnt in 1920 and rebuild again 3 years later.
Elephants and clowns enjoyed the people of Gent and the surroundings for many years.
The last show was in 1944. After that it became a garage of a carcollector.
Mister Mahy bought his first 1921 Ford T in 1944, not knowing that he would collect more then 1000 cars in the year 2000.

Its now abandoned for almost 10 years.
After the clowns and elephants also the cars has left the building.

There are plans to reconvert it into a library.



Bart
www.urban-travel.org


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