Wednesday, July 21, 2010

40 years later! (From John Goodall)


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Six elephants from the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus complete a predawn walk from Union Station to Staples Center.

"At first I thought this was a Public Lynching until I realized the
gentleman at right was carrying the floating guard rope."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 7/21/2010 06:04:00 AM

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

I wonder what the average age of Asian elephants in the US is? It can't be too many years before the only ones left performing are those born at the stud farm and a couple other misc births. Then, even one elephants walking down the street will be a major event.

21 July, 2010 08:15
Chic Silber said...

Marching through a blighted area

of DC with all those roll down

steel gates in front of the shops

Not as bad as the area surrounding

the old armory used to be

21 July, 2010 10:18
Chic Silber said...

Is Sonny the only survivor still

on a traveling unit

21 July, 2010 10:26
Mr RM said...

Dress code optional?

21 July, 2010 12:24
Anonymous said...

LOVE TO SEE THE GIRLS WORKING WITH THE BULLS!
:-)
Cindy Potter

21 July, 2010 12:54
Bill Shoop said...

Buckles:
You think they need all that help with such a small herd?Specially in these economic times?

21 July, 2010 15:34
Frank Ferrante said...

Chic -

This was from Union Station to the Staples Center in LOS ANGELES. ~frank

21 July, 2010 15:58
Ryan Easley said...

How is the calf transported during the walk? I thought we had seen on previous photos that he lead the herd.

21 July, 2010 16:03
Frank Ferrante said...

Radar -

Depending on the route they took, the walk could be between 3 mi. and 3.5 mi. I don't know if that's too far for a calf to walk, but I also heard that Baby Barack was ill recently. ~frank

21 July, 2010 19:04
Chic Silber said...

Thanks Frank I guess it "aint no

better" out there (maybe worse)

So what's the name of the new

arena in downtown DC

They have Union Stations all

across America (Union Pacific)

21 July, 2010 20:10
Clownron said...

There is a semi that transports the calf... cute as hell. I had the pleasure of jack-potting with Janice Aria, Joe Frisco, and his lovely wife after seeing a terrific show. Barrack just recently returned to the show. Janice picked up the check! I LOVE the woman's movement!!!

22 July, 2010 13:04
GaryHill said...

Back in 73 at Winter Quarters they had a special truck for hauling animals around. We used it at CW when they had me take some of the petting zoo animals to malls and crap like that! I don't miss that shit at all. I did like to do the road trips/parades the Capt entrusted me to do tho.

22 July, 2010 19:28
Larry Louree said...

Gary:

Did you get to haul the animals up for that arts dinner at that hotel at 192 & I-4? As I remember we had a couple of Llamas and other small critters as well as George the elephant came along. He thought he'd found the mother load with all of the tropical green plants out at the entrance of the place. I remember the handlers constantly discouraging him from having a snack on the foliage.

22 July, 2010 21:55

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