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A Pictorial History of St. Johns by Donald R. Nelson is available through St. Johns Booksellers. A link to their store can be found here. This book can also be purchased at Pattie's Home Plate Cafe.

"One very exciting incident happened when the Arnold circus came to St. Johns many years ago and set up their show at Ivanhoe and Chicago streets. A lion escaped and roamed all over the place, scaring the customers half to death. The circus trainer finally captured him upstairs in the Ormandy Bldg., where he had torn up the carpet on the stairway." - Scoot Lind (Old St. Johns As I Remembered It / Bicentennial Issue St. Johns History)

St. Johns History Bicentennial Issue can be purchased at Pattie's Home Plate Cafe.

June, 1931