| This is the gentleman that took the mule inventory, visiting my dad at the State Fair in Detroit. Some of you senior Circus Fans must remember him. A very nice man. |
Friday, September 28, 2007
Marion Organ and "Lydia" 1953
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would this be the same Lydia of Bobby Gibbs trio...Marie, Shirley and Lydia?
Yes it is!
she grew into a fine looking elephant.
Lydia was used to retrieve Shirma when Shirma's little temper tantrum hurt Bobby Gibbs and Ron Dyer at Baraboo's Circus World Museum...1973(?)
This Sherma mentioned, is she the same Sherma from the Hamid-Morton 5 consisting of Boambay, Delhi, Siam, Joyce, and Sherma? Wade Burck
Would that be the Ron Dyer that is a farrier and goes by the term "The Horseshoer"?
Ron Dyer 'the Horseshoer', thats my father.
and for Sherma's whereabouts ...we heard she was destroyed after she left Baraboo, supposedly put a handler in an iron lung. only to reappear on another show. Bobby Gibbs recognized her and she was promptly shipped off again....to Mexico(?)
I have one of Mr. Dyer's oil paintings in my living room. It's about 1' by 2' a Ringling Show panorama done in the 1950's.
Rex Williams once told me that "Sherma" wound up at Lion Country Safari near Palm Beach.
One winter he was down there visiting his in-laws when he got phone call asking him to come to the park as "Sherma" was attacking everyone.
Rex drove out to the place and immediately walked up to her, head on, invited her to lie down, sit up, etc. and she obeyed perfectly.
As he arrived home there was a frantic phone call waiting for him, "Come back, as soon as you left she went crazy again!"
He said he returned one more time to the same results, after which he didn't bother to answer any more calls.
painterchic98, I met your Dad at the Fla State Farriers Assn. back in '79. Last time I saw his was in Lakeland,Fl when the Blue show was there, he came by for a visit as I did. Tell him hello for me, I doubt that he remembers me tho?
I'll be sure to tell him. He needs to come see Buckles log, I know he would throughly enjoy it.... though he'll be less than thrilled to see I misspelled 'Sherma'.
While Bobby and Daddy were still in the hospital a couple showed up claiming to be from Lion Country Safari. meanwhile the contact from LCS called to say transportation problems was delaying their picking her up.
Buckles, is this the Sherma that John Cuneo 86'd and replaced with the Billie you mentioned in a prior poste? Wade Burck
Indeed it is.
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