Did 21 Elephants Walk Across The Brooklyn Bridge?
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