Terrell played a shopping center here in town and I was a kid and got to see his cat act with the wire walking lion and Bubba Voss told me later he had died after leaving here in or near Houston, Tx.
Terrell Monroe Jacobs died in his home, at 9:05 a.m., on Christmas Eve, 1957. He had gone out in a bitter Indiana winter morning to try to push his car to get it started. He came in exhausted, sat down in his easy chair, and suddenly was gone. He is buried in Wabash, Indiana. He was only 54.
The first wire-walking lion in the U.S. was Bob Matthews' big 800-pound King Tuffy, in 1925. Next was Swede Johnson's Big Johnny, by coincidence another male lion at 800 pounds. Then, wire cats became fairly common, and out here, Mabel Stark had 5 successive tigers on the cables. The walker I knew was her last one, Tiba.
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Looks like the mane of
a Barbery Lion which is
now mostly extinct
Would this be Swede Johnson?
Terrell Jacobs.
Is "mostly extinct" kind of like being "sort of pregnant"?
Apologies. Couldn't resist
Terrell played a shopping center here in town and I was a kid and got to see his cat act with the wire walking lion and Bubba Voss told me later he had died after leaving here in or near Houston, Tx.
Terrell Monroe Jacobs died in his home, at 9:05 a.m., on Christmas Eve, 1957. He had gone out in a bitter Indiana winter morning to try to push his car to get it started. He came in exhausted, sat down in his easy chair, and suddenly was gone. He is buried in Wabash, Indiana. He was only 54.
The first wire-walking lion in the U.S. was Bob Matthews' big 800-pound King Tuffy, in 1925. Next was Swede Johnson's Big Johnny, by coincidence another male lion at 800 pounds. Then, wire cats became fairly common, and out here, Mabel Stark had 5 successive tigers on the cables. The walker I knew was her last one, Tiba.
No apology necessary Patricia
Much scientific research says
they are an extinct species
but there have been claims
that some mixed breed cats
can carry some of the genes
I have never been nor caused
any sort of pregnancy either
This is due to many years of
great caution & frustration
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