Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Sells & Gray Circus #6


Scan10055, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Isn't this elephant empress Chris Hudson?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is indeed Chris Hudson with Anna May, taken in 1963. I used this photo a lot in in my press work in 1964 and also in 1965. it was a big hit. We billed Chris as LaChristina. (incidentally, newspaper editors sometimes cropped anna may out and ran the picture of chris alone as a way of working cheesecake into the papers) I'm pretty sure it was taken by Truxton Hosley of Auburn NY who took a lot of photos of Chris and anna may as well as many other great performance pictures that i used

Michael said...

That is for a fact Chris with Anna May either 63 or 64. I knew her and Paul very well. As I remember it though Frank Daily was the Bull man and the prop boss during those years. I believe this was the first year Bill English took over and Paul was GM. Johnny Golden was the Big Cat man. and Lil Abner was the Big Top Boss. Great Memories.