Monday, October 23, 2006

House acts #4


This is Hugo Schmitt's most enterprising house act, a floating elephant ride. At the conclusion of the performance he would take an elephant to the closest exit and set up shop. Axel would load and unload the patrons, Hugo handled the proceeds which they would later divide.
No howdah or platform, "Targa" would simply stretch out so the kids could be pitched on and pulled off also making the operation flexible enough to move from exit to exit.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is when it was so much fun to ride an elephant. I always liked riding bare back. Except when the elephant was running. Like for the long mount. Never a favorite thing to do.

Anonymous said...

I recall you and Ted setting up an elephant ride on RBBB at the St. Louis Arena. It was between shows, next to a narrow area where cars would enter and exit. The parking guys were trying to move cars as fast as possible and the people were stopping to look at the elephants. (The parking guys expressed their displeasure.)