Friday, February 06, 2009

Unidentified Elephant Ride (From Mike Naughton)


elephantride, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

"Puzzling picture in a semi-tropical setting.
The back to back howdah suggests the late 1940's or early 50's.
The house trailer and tourists look blatantly American. Maybe someone can recognize the structure in the background."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 2/06/2009 06:49:00 AM

4 comments:

GaryHill said...

Looks like Busch Gardens, in Tampa, but I don't know why a trailer would be parked there?

06 February, 2009 17:45
Anonymous said...

Buckles, and this is just a guess, it looks to me like the Indio, California, Date Festival (fair) grounds to me.

Bill Schreiber

06 February, 2009 22:54
Casey McCoy Cainan said...

Mr. Schreiber,
I don't know how I didn't see it but you are rite. The structure is a temple with an open stage on the other side. During the fair I would have to take an elephant to the door on the back side, throw on a turban and a robe, load a princess, and walk across the rickety stage. In the nineties the elephant ride and camel ride were in a grassy patch rite along the temple stage. I will patch not recognizing it with the Date palms being 40ft tall when I worked it.

07 February, 2009 08:49
Anonymous said...

The Elephant ride was Babe when she was with the Holter show. And it is the Date festival in the late 50's.

07 February, 2009 12:01

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