Sunday, May 17, 2009

Mac MacDonald #6


Scan11672, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

The famous Besalou elephants (named for Bessie Polack and Louis Stern) featured with Polack Bros. Circus for many years.
"Mary", "Jean" "Millie", "Betty", "Kathy" and "Opal".

Posted by Buckles at 5/17/2009 06:14:00 AM

3 comments:

JIM ELLIOTT said...

Every impressive!

17 May, 2009 07:34
joey ratliff said...

This may be my favorite elephant act photo of all time. Thanks for running it again!

18 May, 2009 07:33
Denny Zee said...

Thank you for showing this. Any idea what year it was taken? Likely it's between 1953 & 1956, since it shows Mary. Mary eventually ended up in the central Florida Zoo where we enjoyed her company for many years. She passed in early 2010 at the age of 64.

31 March, 2011 17:13

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