Buckles Blog: Ursula #3

Sunday, March 07, 2010

Ursula-4, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Ursula hosing down her bears in the backyard of the San Diego Sports Arena, 1980

john herriott said...: Ursala and Manfred never sweemed to be happy and were never very demontrative. I spent a year with them at Circus World and myself, Axel and Ursala were provided wth nice big mobile homes to live in in a nice parking area with driveway, grass, etc. Each morning I would greet her with a "Hello, good morning how are you today?" She would always reply,"feefty, feety". She did not like the swimming pool, deck area for the bears and we got beefs that the bears were not on display and they would grudgingly turn a couple out from the building. It was an elaborate special built just for the bears. We had to have a chute of some two hundred feet to get them to the cage wagon and then the theatre. I believe she did not like the pool as they could get too familiar and fresh and her main thing was them performing in the ring. It was a fabulous act.; 08 March, 2010 20:40
johnny said...: the bears were always kept in that big cage wagon, all together and there is a story about that as well.; 08 March, 2010 20:46

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