Wednesday, June 23, 2010

From Dave Price


EleTabAG23, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Buckles:

This photo is being sold on eBay as being from 1923 (although the seller says also exact date unknown).

This is the old Barnes Elephant Tab now reconstructed at Baraboo, but who would these three youngsters be?

I don't think the wagon was still on the show when the 1925 additions came on: Sedro, Culver and possibly one or more others.

Regards, Dave


Do you suppose it might be "Topsy", "Eva" and "Suzie" in Baraboo 1962".
Buckles


Hadn't thought of that.

Oh, I don't think the elephant tab was restored until some years after 1962.

The sides were on the Jungleland gate until about 1966 or so.

Dave

Posted by Buckles at 6/23/2010 05:55:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Joe Bradbury always feared that someone would pawn off a "Baraboo era" photo, showing a wagon on a flat bearing a title with which it never traveled.

Compare the carving details on the wagon in the photo, versus those on the actual Barnes wagon, and you should have your answer. Remember, only the wooden elephants survived, everything else was re-created.

23 June, 2010 10:21
Flint said...

The Elephant Tab was restored at CWM over the winter of 1986-1987. Marv Gauger was called out of retirement to help on the project.
Flint

23 June, 2010 10:41
Ole Whitey said...

Bob Cline: Any ideas on the identity of the elephants?

23 June, 2010 12:19
Bob Cline said...

Dave,
I couldn't identify this elephant from that one. Buckles is the expert. However, my educated guess is that these were some of the Bobby Moore elephants that he had bought from Roman Schmitt. He got Luna, Smokey, Roman and Tonka around 1985 / 1986 from Roman.

Tonka was born Aug. 23, 1983.
Roman was born Sept. 9, 1983.
Luna was born Jan. 1, 1984.
Smokey was born Feb. 2, 1984.

Roman was acquired from Roman Schmitt on Feb. 12, 1985 according to the Asian Elephant studbook and didn't stay with Bobby Moore only a couple months before going to David Blasko.

Bobby spent some time at the CWM in particular with Smokey helping to put an elephant hitch together. Jim Peterson has posted some of these photos on his blog before. Unfortunately the blogging devils have destroyed his archives, so maybe he will see this and post them again.

With Steve Flint's knowledge that the elephant tab wasn't restored until the winter of 1986 / 1987,
my educated "GUESS" is that this is Luna, Tonka, and Smokey.
Bob

23 June, 2010 21:06
Hal Guyon said...

Another giveaway as to the age of the photo. Look between the gaps of the sidewall & the top. It looks like the tent is a striped top on the inside, although it dosen`t appear that way on the outside.

23 June, 2010 22:54

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