Buckles Blog: Circus Pages #8

Friday, January 28, 2011

PA130051, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Elephants are pretty big.
Both imported to RBBB Red in 1979.

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JIM ELLIOTT said...: Josip Marcan and Jorge Pages.; 28 January, 2011 09:01
Anonymous said...: The bull on the right reminds me of Willy that Bret Bronson worked a few years back. BIG.

Paul Gutheil; 28 January, 2011 11:03
JIM ELLIOTT said...: The one on trhe right is Daisy. She is pretty good size, as is Bombi, but no where near as tall as Willy.
I saw Willy when he was owned by the Water Park mob, just outside Sterling Heights, Mich. Army McGuire was handling him, at the time.; 28 January, 2011 15:27
JIM ELLIOTT said...: These elephants were bought from the Ringling Show, in 1991. They were picked up at the Venice wq's. Both Gunther and Axel were there that day as well as Freddie Logan. They were loaded into a trailer which I owned at the time and taken to Circus Pages wq's, in Myakka City. Pages used this trailer for the first season, then bought a former Frito-Lay trailer, which is the one they have now.
In 1990, I loaned this same trailer to Mel Silverlake for his Fisher Bros. show. He had leased an African elephant(Paula) from D.R. Miller.; 29 January, 2011 01:57

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