 I can't make out what they are unloading but whatever it is, they have the undivided attention of the townspeople. In the days of the Great Depression, any free entertainment was well received.  |
Friday, February 02, 2007
Wheeler & Almond Circus #3
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Could that be an elephant backing out?
Shape and size of a RINO.
This reminds me of a time 1978 at RB&BB Circus World ; for some reason there was a large Water Buffalo / Oxen (?) briefly on the lot & was time for it to leave - I couln't help but notice a commotion going on - there a group of men trying to load this very large animal into a trailer very unsuccesfully for 15 minutes
( & might I say a rather comical situation - to ME , observing ! ) Suddenly here comes Manfred ,( from Ursula's Polar Bears ) grabed the Oxens tail twisted it clockwise / holding it against its rump & with his other hand pushed this stubern brut into the trailer in 3 seconds - " Viola " - & exited as quickley a she had arived .
WOW - Superman-fred !
If this is a HIPPO, where would they carry a tank? Gary, you would know an elephant,/rino/hippo when you see one.
Bud I bought that buffalo when I was Superintendent of the Menagerie/Elephant Ride at CW. It was halter broke but needed to be attended daily, no one worked it after we went on the road.
Dutchess, I couldn't get the picture to enlarge this morning, but now it looks to me like a rhino? Legs too long to be a hippo.
I will have Richard Reynolds clear this matter up.
He would know if Wheeler & Almond carried a rhino in 1937.
I got to say Manfred was quite a powerful man for his size. The base for the polar bear merry go round was moved by several of the teeterboard bottom standers from props, but Manfred rolled it like a bull tub during the act.
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