Friday, April 03, 2009

Clyde Beatty Cole Bros. 1983 #1 (From Joe Giordano)

Buckles
I have been sorting and organizing my thousands of slides. Don't ask!!! Should have kept up with the organization as I took the photos and made notes. Anyway... Can you help identify the elephant on the right in the attached photo's?. See photo numbers CBCB83-117S & CBCB83-118S. I am guessing that the elephant in question is Maude? Photo was taken Aug.4th-8th 1983, Farmingville LI NY. I believe Maude or Maud was sold during the early 80's to Hawthorne, not sure of the year. Left to right in each photo I have identified Pete, Helen, and Sue. Of course Capt.Fred Logan is in command.

"In the SACRED ALL-KNOWING BOOK ON PACHYDERMS, I have 9 elephants listed for the 1983 season "Pete", "Sue", "Helen", "Maude", "Konti", "Ola", "Bessie", "Jewel" and "Frieda".
Indicating three rings of three elephants."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 4/03/2009 06:35:00 AM

14 comments:

David Miller said...

I was a tuba player with the CBCB show the fall of 1971. The elephant "Pete" and I were best friends. We developed a routine where I would keep a few sugar cubes in my right pant`s pocket. Pete would nudge me to retrieve them as a treat. If I didn`t give her the treat, she would put her trunk in the pocket and lift me and shake me until I would give her some sugar. I miss her.She was a great friend.

13 July, 2010 19:02
Sarah said...

I saw the circus in my hometown in 1978 I belive Pete was with them. I remember seeing him in Muncie Indiana, Richmond Indiana and on the tv news from Dayton ohio. There were a couple of kids then called Lancelot (trapeze and acrobats ) and his friend Joey ( his family ran consessions i think.

25 June, 2012 18:27
Chic Silber said...

Pete was indeed there Sarah but

he was actually a she & she was

the leader of the herd

Lancelot was from the Ramos family

25 June, 2012 19:42
Chic Silber said...

Wasn't Bessie also known as Bee

25 June, 2012 22:36
Buckles said...

Those two elephants "Burma" and "Gypsy" came from Tony Gentry.
Rex preferred one syllable names hence "Bee" and "Gyp".

25 June, 2012 23:36
Chic Silber said...

I believe that for a few years Rex

had the 5 act in ring 2 with Pete

Bee Sue Gyp & Konti

25 June, 2012 23:49
Wade G. Burck said...

Buckles,
You are absolutely right(yes, you usually are) suggesting that Rex preferred one syllable names. I had never really thought about it, until just now when you mentioned it. Thank you for the "memory jog."

Wade Burck

26 June, 2012 06:43
Buckles said...

For the most part the center ring act was "Pete", "Sue", "Dena", "Bee" and "Gyp" in that order.

26 June, 2012 07:09
Sarah said...

I remembered after I posted that Pete was a she and couldn't un-post. Pete just had a personality that stood out.

27 June, 2012 20:48
Chic Silber said...

Funny that both Konti & Dena were

2 syllable names (that's my excuse

& I'm sticking with it)

27 June, 2012 22:19
Buckles said...

He had a gimpy old cow on the Vargas Show he called "Old Folks".

27 June, 2012 22:44
Chic Silber said...

Didn't his Reed have a gimp leg

or maybe just a stiff leg also

27 June, 2012 22:49
Chic Silber said...

I think Rex liked horseback due to

his painful limp (maybe his hip)

I seem to recall Rex & Reed as a

limpalong comedy duo

27 June, 2012 22:54
Buckles said...

I don't think so.
Bobby Gibbs said he just got tired of walking thru the shit.

28 June, 2012 06:57

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