Thursday, September 13, 2007

Lucia Zora #7


SAVE0348, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Written on the back:
"Old Floto Show in quarters, Denver early spring 1916. Wagon sheds showing from top of dens." (OOPS! I cropped out the sheds.) Buckles

Fifteen years later with this show, my dad was working one of the acts and one day, the lady appearing with him showed up with a costume like this.
When it came time for the handshake (sitting in their locked trunks) she ran over to the ring curb and picked up a towel which she ceremoniously draped over the part that would soil her rear end.
Half way thru the trick Highpockets appeared, snatched the towel from beneath her, threw it on the ground and yelled, "Goddammit! I always said women don't belong in elephant acts!."
Not much PC in those days.
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 9/13/2007 06:05:00 AM

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Richard Reynolds says - - -

That’s the male hippo Tambon or Bon Tam, so named after Tammen and Bonfils, the owners of both Sells Floto and The Denver Post. He was acquired when only a wee calf around 1904. This hippo was an unusually gentle male, perhaps because he was so bonded with humans. He died at Peru after the last of SF’s tours, that of 1932. He was often photographed in the back yard, sometimes with a baboon on his back and also children.

13 September, 2007 17:06

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