Saturday, December 23, 2006

Steve Fannin #5



Steve Fannin and Irish Hill with "Lois", "Suzie" and "Sheba".
Cristiani-Wallace Bros. Circus, April 16, 1962 East Point, Ga. Posted by Picasa

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is this the same "Sheba" that Remo Cristiani ended up with? Wasn't there someone in Vermont that had an elephant act that ended up her?

Buckles said...

Yes it is and the guy in Vermont is named Kelton.
One winter in Calif. at Sid Kellner's place, some Federal Marshall's came in wanting to know if they could use our facility to house some elephants they had just impounded.
It's a complicated story concerning the people you mentioned.
I advised Sid no to get involved and he didn't.

Anonymous said...

From a fading memory;
I met a gent I believe had a GM dealership who had three punks working on some show I was visiting. Also he was driving a new GM astro cab. I think that would have been the ones Remo had. Remo was on the Don Francisco dates I mentioned in 1968 on our way to Portland OR for the Circus Maximus opening. The next time I saw Remo he had four in his herd. Where did the other three end up?

Buckles said...

According to my files, in 1968 Remo only had one elephant "Sheba" however in 1969-70 he added three from Kelton "Shirley", "Mitzi" and "Diamond" (a male).
Later after the issue of ownership was cleared up, Remo again had only "Sheba" but by 1972 he was back up to 3 having added "Shaunzi" and "Dino" (another male).

24-HOUR-MAN said...

j.c hall,
Thiis off subject, but when & if contracts for Circus Maximus were issued, do you know who signed them. I don't remember if we even had one.

Anonymous said...

At one point Remo had Sheba, Shaunzi, Kara, and Romani. Sheba is at the Buffalo Zoo, Romain is at the Syracuse Zoo, both in NY and the other 2 are at the Chaffee Zoo in Fresno CA.