Sunday, May 20, 2007

From Robert Perry


img425, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

buckles
here is a photo Fritz Schulz great lion tamer now living in Queensland in his (late 90s)
was with the ringling show in the USA in the 1940s came from the ringling show to wirth's in australia. this photo taken with our show in1985.
robert perry

Posted by Buckles at 5/20/2007 06:19:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

this would have put him in his seventies when this photo was taken !

20 May, 2007 10:36
Anonymous said...

Jules Jacot was 80 when he worked a small group of leopards and two lions at the Peoria IL Zoo in 1970. (Left St. Louis after the 1969 season.) He died in January 1971.

Swede Johnson worked lions in his later years but I don't think as long as Jules. Anybody know for sure? I know he was a clown on Ringling late in his life.

20 May, 2007 15:13
david jacot said...

i am Jules Jacot's grandson. I am awed by his perserverence. There is nothing like being 80 years old and still in a cage with lions. You must do what you love until you die.

09 July, 2007 02:10

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