Sparks Elephant Acts #7

Scan000010862, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Everyone hunkered down out of sight except Walter McLain, they must have been taking publicity pictures. Notice the prop in the foreground, my dad always liked this trick and used "Lydia", at first all it took was a section of channel iron, then as she got bigger, a heavier channel iron was required and then to my dismay as prop man, a truss beneath the channel iron. I'm sure had my father lived long enough the additional support seen above would have been included.