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Updated: 02/27/2013 08:00:12AM

Venice gained a circus and an arena in 1960

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By KIM COOL

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Venice had a hand in saving The Greatest Show on Earth.

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus limped back to Sarasota after just two weeks of a four-week run in Pittsburgh in 1956. The mighty show was running out of money.

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