Saturday, April 08, 2006

On the way to the lot #3


This is San Diego in 1978 I had a lot of picturesque people with me that season. Besides Ted there was Gary Jacobson, Tom Hafner, Dan Pyle, Igor Smythe, Nate Bozarth, Chico Williams, Rammy Sammy Haddock, Sean Quinn (Mad Dog), Bobby Cline, Steve Tyner, "Head Down" Harry Fried and my two Rauls (Clean Raul and Foul Raul). Good men and true.

Posted by Buckles at 4/08/2006 06:14:00 AM

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Have not heard from Raul for a while. You still out there Raul? Flora sure misses you.

08 April, 2006 07:08
Buckles said...

As far as I know Rammy Sammy, The Dog , Tom and David Mannes still work at the Stud Farm under strict secrecy
Foul Raul awaits in heaven along with Billy and Dan.

08 April, 2006 10:47
Anonymous said...

Clean Raul is married to an attorney or judge and living in Arizona. Talk to him about once a month. Stay at my place with Flora one winter, got a chance to put a coupkle of tricks on her while she was here. Seemed like a good elephant for an african, don't know when she started hurting people at Miami. Guess another case of no elephant people around her for awhile.

10 April, 2006 22:11
Anonymous said...

I chatted with Raul about Flora. Also Kevin Patton who was on Circus Flora for a season. He is a professior at one of the colleges here. Some one told me. Balwin did not know that buckley was againest circuses or he would not have given her to them. Flora hurt one of the young zoo ladies in Tenn. She was a beautiful elephant. Looks peeked and rough now. Also lookes very lonely. Seems she fights with the other elephants and has to be kept by herself most of the time. 2700 acres aint that great if you are not allowed to use them. She would have been better off at a zoo. At least she would have had more human contact. She was used to being admired by her fans. Now its just bugs and turkeys in Tenn.

10 April, 2006 22:25
Anonymous said...

Very sad for Flora. This elephant spent her life with people,not elephants and now is forced into a situation that she is not equiped for. Another case of do gooders that know nothing aboput animals.

10 April, 2006 22:51
GaryHill said...

Did David Mannes finally leave that little zoo in Melbourne?

11 April, 2006 09:04
Buckles said...

David works at the Ringling Stud Farm but under strict secrecy as does everone else.

11 April, 2006 09:10
Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds asks - -

Where was the late "Sabu" Moreau? He claimed to have been among the RBBB elephant men around this time.

14 April, 2006 18:43

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