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12/12/2025

The West Baden Christmas Circus of 1918 - like a Christmas fairytale 🎄🎪

to Christmas Day 1918 when a circus performance was held in West Baden Springs Hotel Atrium for the soldiers who were staying there. At the time, West Baden Springs Hotel briefly assumed a new name and a new identity: U.S. General Hospital Number 35. An Army hospital where wounded soldiers from World War I were sent.

🎄The towering 45-foot tall tree
“The largest that could be found in Orange County, so tall that its top-most branch reached the fourth floor,” it was touted. Long streamers from the balconies on the top floor artfully curved to a meeting point 50 feet above the floor, with a large five-pointed star just above.

🎪 5 lions, 4 elephants, 1 large white horse
To accommodate the animal performers a ring of sawdust and wood chips was placed on the atrium floor so the marble tiles wouldn’t be damaged. It’s believed the elephants may have had to walk on their knees to gain enough clearance to squeeze through the doors!

✨ The Christmas Day cheer didn’t end there.
At 2:30 sharp, the big-top show under the West Baden dome commenced in grand fashion. At 5 o’clock, the soldiers sat down to a special dinner, followed by the evening performance at 7:15 — the hospital orchestra as well as professional talent brought down from Indianapolis.

🎁 There’s nothing better than a surprise on Christmas.
On this day Army hospital soldiers at U.S. General Hospital Number 35 certainly unwrapped one of the most unusual, fascinating days in West Baden Springs Hotel history.

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12/08/2025

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Women diligently work on the Sears catalog assembly line, 1942, contributing to the home and wartime economy during World War II.