Friday, April 15, 2011

Beatty Show Bull Men #5


Scan11207, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Marie and Bert Pettus 1944

Posted by Buckles at 4/15/2011 05:32:00 AM

2 comments:

Roger Smith said...

Two of the best you could know among showfolks. On Castle, in the winter of '71, they were the first to make me welcome. They had hundreds of friends all over the route, and I was grateful to be among them. I never knew better people around a circus.

Buckles might know more details, but it was well known that Bert once either trained or re-routined a major act of adult elephants, and never put a hook boil on a single one.

17 April, 2011 16:06
Buckles said...

I'm not sure what act that would be but it was general knowledge that Bert wasn't heavy handed.

17 April, 2011 16:41

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