Monday, April 19, 2010

Robbins Bros. follow-up #2


Scan12832, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

This is my mother practicing the cross-cover with "Christy'.
She also rode in a swing that "Christy" carried in her mouth.

Posted by Buckles at 4/19/2010 09:57:00 AM

1 comments:

Unknown said...

Thank you so much Buckles. Love this picture of your mom and Christy! Christy’s face is unmistakable. As I stated in “Spangles,” she had a remarkably calm personality. What a wonderful bull … nothing seemed to faze sweet-natured Christy. She followed orders without a rumble of discontent. Aside from that, she was the sootiest-riding elephant of the herd. Loosing her at sea (from pneumonia) on the way back to the states from Rio was unimaginably sad. Her death took a heavy toll on my dad. The loss seemed to compound the many problems the Cristianis faced after that failed Ringling/Cristiani venture … a venture they had hoped would carry them over a very rough transitional period after the show folded.

Vickie

24 April, 2010 09:57

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