The answer to your question is quite complicated.
Having been with Sid Kellner the past few seasons in 1972 I finally talked him into letting us winter his elephants in Florida but we never made it home.
On the way we stopped on the Carson & Barnes lot and D.R. explained that he had just sold three elephants Penny, Mary and Blondie to the Padilla Family who at the close of the season planned on reopening their show in Mexico.
He had also leased them a cat act plus the two former Bartok elephants Bunni and Betty.
The upshot was we finished out the season and were somehow included in the deal partially to look out for his interests and off to Mexico we went with nine elephants.
From My Journal
Jan. 27- Feb. 7 Puebla, Puebla 150 mile jump
"At the close of this date Ben returns to James Bros. with the Kellner elephants as well as Kuhneman to C&B with the cat act plus Betty and Bunni.
Reduces our herd to four."
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
To Chic Silber
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Thanks Buckles & it seems those
9 may have never worked together
Must have been a whirlwind event
to get them coordinated quickly
Were the 3 you kept (aside from
the Grande Dame) Peggy Mac & Toto
Back in our early youthful days
Shannon & I were "skinnymarinks"
(My grandmother's expression)
We've both filled out very well
I didn't get Toto and Mac until 1980.
Aside from Peggy & Anna May which
other 2 came back with you
The other three elephants belonged to the Padillas and remained there.
"Peggy" came later as a gift from Gunther in 1982.
Buckles, can you share the history of Penny ?
Don Marcks in his files now at Circus World Museum wondered if she might have come to Carson & Barnes from the Garden City, Kansas zoo.
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