Sunday, February 01, 2009

On the subject of Frank Buck (From Wayne Jackson)


Busch1, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Beer Baron August A. Busch Jr. Pres. of Anheuser-Busch brewery with pet elephant from his private menagerie.

Location:
US

Date taken:
October 1959

Posted by Buckles at 2/01/2009 06:22:00 AM

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

There used to be tours of the Busch estate & barns in St Louis. The stalls were high polished wood (mahogany ?) and brass everywhere-that all brick courtyard yhey're standing in and great carved stone gargoyles on every outside corner. They had a small animal collection including a huge tortoise, a couple of the biggest mules and I remember a parrot performing. cc

01 February, 2009 08:04
Anonymous said...

The 200 plus acre Busch estate in south St. Louis is commonly called Grant's Farm. Gen. U.S.Grant farmed the area at one time and a cabin he lived is in on the Busch property. Members of the Busch family live (at least part-time) in homes not on the tour. A visit to Grant's Farm was free and so popular you had to make reservations. You would tour throught the deer park with several species of deer, bison, long-horn cattle, etc. The trams would drop you off at the Barnhof (sp?) area mainly famous for free beer. You could see the carriage collection and the beautiful horse stalls for the Busch family hunters and jumpers. There was a small children's zoo where you could bottle feed goats and see parrot and elephant shows. I haven't been back for a while but the last elephants were a pair of Africans, now full-grown. August Busch Jr. and then STL Zoo Director George Vierheller were great friends and assisted each other in animal acquistions.

I haven't heard about what will happen to Grant's Farm now that the brewery has been sold to INBEV, a Belgian corp. The family owned the farm but received a fee for every guest from A-B (there was some other business and accounting things involved too). The free beer is now gone from the A-B parks, is Grant's Farm to follow?

01 February, 2009 12:26
Anonymous said...

When I came to St. Louis in the mid 60s they had young Asians, Peggy and Tessie. As they grew I think they had a few more sets of Peggy and Tessies. The Africans were named Bud and Mick (or Mich).

01 February, 2009 12:53

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