It was common during the early 1900s that everything stopped when the circus came to town. Men, women, children, and businessmen who would close their shops lined the unpaved streets of that era to get a glimpse of the big top as it paraded down main street.It was during the “Depression,” in 1934, that the spectacular train circus came to Brownsville. The circus industry had survived the stock market crash of 1929, but by the early ’30 it was losing its audience. It came to the point that circus-goers were exchanging their entertainment nickels to buy a piece of bread.Regardless ...