 We call the wooden bars across the door "bull boards". One of the Vargas Show elephant trucks had a set of four, made out of channel iron, very heavy and for some reason would only fit in a certain order. Someone had come up with the idea of having a number welded on each bar but was overruled in favor of the letters "F", "U", "C" and "K" from top to bottom. After loading the elephants for the first time, I stood in the doorway and said to Patton "Hand me the F", after fastening it in, I said, "Hand me the U" and getting that one in place I said "All right the next one." Patton replied "Which one is that?" I yelled "Damn Jaws, can't you even spell fuck?" and he said "As long as I can do it, no need to learn how to spell it!"  |
Thursday, April 19, 2007
All right Rebecca, I'll tell the story one more time...but this is it!
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Richard Reynolds asks - -
What year is this? Looks to be about 1954.
The animal is Abele (Emily),a rare forest elephant (cyclotis). She was brought from the Congo in 1947 by Howard Bary for RBBB and dropped dead in NYC while walking to the train in 1956. I suspect she had TB.
At the end on WWII it was easier to get forest elephants through the Belgian training station at Gangala na Bodio than it was to try for the larger bush elephants from East Africa. After a hiatus of some 20 years, the latter did not start coming on the market again unil the 1950s.
from Jim Stockley.......
Can you tell us about this elephant?
From this angle it looks very like a forest elephant? (L.a.cyclotis) as opposed to the more common savannah model (L.a.africana)?
Could you please tell me where the Chipperfield elephants are Please? heard they are in France with a little circus Medrano think Daniel Raffo worked there for a while.Did he take them there or were they Sold
STILL THE FUNNIEST THING I have read ever about bull men. I guess one reason is my god awful spelling. Thank you Buckles. I still laughed so hard it brought tears and the wheels on my chair moved a foot.
Buckles, I have to agree with Rebecca. I laughed so hard that I should probably quit checking your website while at work... for a while.
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