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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
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10 comments:
Richard Flint's comments were very good and I hope that other Richard, the son of the Old South, will get on here and explain about the above picture.
Did this same Rhino go from Kelly-Miller to Famous Cole and then back? Or was the animal Herb Walters sold Dorey about 1960 a different one?
By the way, Buckles, what are doing at the computer on the Fourth? Don't you know the rule that the one who drives the stakes grills the steaks?
Richard Reynolds adds - -
This 1950 view is of the trailer that hauled D. R. Miller’s first African black rhino. He got it in 1949 and it went to heaven on March 2, 1953 at Hugo qtrs. Then, two years later (1955) K-M and Cole & Walters got black rhinos. That was a big year for them because RBBB also got a pair that year.
The 1949 K-M rhino was the first to trek with a truck show. Meanwhile, Tony Diano got into the rhino business with his Molly, obtained in 1952. She died on the road with Cristiani in 1960. Cristiani then got its own black rhino for 1959 but it died during the season or shortly after the show went home for the winter.
Somewhere I have seen it written that both the hippo, Miss Oklahoma, and the rhino rode in this trailer. Seems to me that would have crowded things a bit since the hip would have had a bathing tank. Those more in the know about things Hugo can advise on that.
They did share the same den, #55.
The hippo in the back half since she had to unload daily for her walk around the hippodrome track.
I was making a model of this truck and I needed information on what went where and Ted Bowman had D. R. Miller call me on this.
Miss Oklahoma was in the back and Nick was up front.
Also the hippo was painted on one side of the truck and the rhino was on the other side.
Harry
Buckles what a great blog I found. I saw a picture of a young Lydia a couple weeks ago,can you show some more. We are playing up in Maine at Yorks Wildkingdom. 3 show a day and elephant rides. can you show some more pictures of Lydia as well as some of her storys when you had her. Thanks Dave Tesch
Richard Reynolds assumes - -
When DR sold the rhino and hip to Bell Bros Mexico,I assume the simplest thing would have been to also sell #55 semi-trailer. That way the animals could have ridden to Mexico inside #55, thus saving the cost of putting them in cage crates.
Why did Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus have a Roland Butler rhino poster and did not have a rhino on the circus?????
It was a beautiful poster.
Where did the rhino on Carson and Barnes end up, where and who got it????
Harry
Richard Reynolds answers - -
Harry, I assume you are asking about the Carson & Barnes white rhino. The first one was got from Gopher D. around 1981 who had obtained it from a wildlife sanctuary in Oregon. Around 1993 DR traded it to the Great Adventure in NJ for a younger animal. He was getting PETA-type heat over its confinement in that fold-out pen. So after a few years he sent it to a dealer (Henry something, I think) who in turn sent it to a safari park, or the like, in Louisiana. I’ll have to dig out the specific dates of these transactions.
Richard Reynolds,
A big thank you for the great information as this is what makes circus history alot of fun.
Harry
Mr. Reynolds, I am glad to hear about the trade with Great Adventure for a younger rhino. I was with Buckles when I was offered the job a GA in '74. I had 28 african elephants,24 that I brought back from Uganda and 16 white rhinos. Within the two years I was there I had two baby rhinos born, one female then a male. I am glad the breeding program is a success!
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