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Why Did Elephants Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge?

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Why Did Elephants Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge? 21 Elephants Walked Across the Newly-Opened Brooklyn Bridge to Prove Its Safety. … Barnum, never one to turn down a PR opportunity, offered authorities a novel way to show–and show off–the safety of the new bridge: He’d walk his troupe of elephants across it. At first, his

Did 21 Elephants Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge?

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Did 21 Elephants Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge? Did 21 elephants walk across the Brooklyn Bridge? Never one to turn down a public relations opportunity, the impresario P.T. Barnum, used this tragedy to show the bridge’s herculean strength on May 17, 1884 by having 21 elephants, plus 10 camels and 7 dromedaries march across the