Friday, May 16, 2008

From Dave Price


ChiCol33, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Here's a picture made the same spot but looking north when Hagenbeck-Wallace made the date in 1933. One of the elephants was identified as Duchess.
Dave


"The elephant kneeling is "Lizzie" you can tell by her massive head and I'll bet the other is "Blanche", Gardner's head-carry elephant and another of his favorites.
"Dutch" was not so reliable.
Buckles

WALLACE LIZZIE
1901-04 Walter L. Main Circus
1905-12 Campbell Bros. Circus
1913-14 Wm. P. Hall Animal Farm
1915 Barton & Bailey Circus (Leased from Hall)
1916 Wheeler Bros. Circus
1917-18 R.T. Richards Circus
1919 Wm. P. Hall Farm
1920-21 Howes Great London (Amer. Circus Corp.)
1922 Gollmar Bros. Circus (Amer. Circus Corp.)
1923-24 John Robinson Circus (Amer. Circus Corp.)
1925-38 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1939-41 Ringling-Barnum Circus
(Died in the Atlanta poisoning 11/5/41)

BLANCHE
1910-13 Mike Glasscock Independent Act
1914-16 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus (Ballard)
1917-24 John Robinson Circus (Amer. Circus Corp.)
1925-38 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1939-41 Ringling-Barnum Circus
(Died in the Atlanta poisoning 11/5/41

WALLACE DUTCHESS
1901-10 Norris & Rowe Circus
1910 Wm. P. Hall Animal Farm
1911-13 Howes Great London (Amer. Circus Corp.)
1913-19 Yankee Robinson Circus (Fred Buchanan)
1920-24 John Robinson Circus (Amer. Circus Corp.)
1925-38 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1939-40 Goebel's Lion Farm (1,000 Oaks, Calif.)
(Died 7/10/40 in fire at Goebel's facility)

Posted by Buckles at 5/16/2008 03:25:00 PM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

HANNEFORD ELEPHANTS: I love this picture because I always wanted to pull this PR Trick..... I handled Ann Arbor, MI Marketing for Tommy Hanneford. David Rawls and Kelly-Miller had this date for many years.....This was the first year for Tommy Hanneford in Ann Arbor after Kelly-Miller. Show set-up at the airport and did a great parade through downtown Ann Arbor..After the parade we headed over to University of Michigan Childrens Hospital.... On the way over I saw a chance to stop traffic at one of Ann Arbors busy enter sections. We had a police escort so I timed the entire Circus Parade to the hospital so the Hanneford Elephant tractor trailer would stop for a few minutes in the center of the busy enter section.....Finally the city police came to me and ask what the problem was..At that time we moved on...SIDEBAR COMMENT: At the time Hanneford had some of the best children performers of the big acts on the show..We used the circus children for the Childrens Hospital show. During the performance one of the young male performers had a accident and was taken to the emergency room for attention...Of course we know "The Show Must Go No Matter What." The Childrens Hospital Doctor fixed our very young performer up and he didn't miss the BIG SHOW Opening that evening. So without checking with Tommy about show insurance I ask the doctor if he and his family would like to be Mr.Hannefords Guest at the Opening Performance....Now You Know the Rest of Story....dpowhitetiger

17 May, 2008 10:54

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