Monday, September 22, 2008

Elephant Appreciation Day! #1


scan0063, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

No elephants on today's blog and here it is Elephant Appreciation Day!
Robin

"Unaware of the occasion I'll include these two pictures recently received from a friend who for some reason wishes to remain anonymous." Buckles

From Anonymous:
Buckles, isn't this Gilda at C-W in the winter of '73-'74 ?
Is she still alive ?

"Yes it is, a nice elephant. Came from the Billy Smart Circus in 1972.
She died in Las Vegas some time ago after appearing for years with Sigfried & Roy."
Buckles

7 comments:

GaryHill said...

Capt, sorry to disagree but that is Rebecca in the photo.

Anonymous said...

Elephants got a lot of appreciation over at my blog, thanks to your reminder.

Peggy Williams got a little appreciation today also.

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10526699

If you would like to email me, you may at the following address.

Adaline
adaliner@earthlink.net

Anonymous said...

Sorry Gary,
I took this photo of Gilda

Anonymous said...

Garry Larry is right its gilda Clean Raul. ps.Larry i hope you are feeling better CleanRaul

GaryHill said...

You should be correct if you shot the photo? I need to check my photos of the herd? I remember Rebecca having a more triangular head than Gilda, as her's was more round? The eyes aren't as good as they used to be! :)

Anonymous said...

I remember Gilda as much rounder in head and body, than Rebeca.
If I remember correctly Rebeca was a "noodle nose"
Gilda was the first big elephant I worked on a ride. My very first big elephant experience was on Sells & Gray with this old elephant,named Bessie, teaching me how to work her, pulling stakes
Oh ! Oh !, I feel a story comin' on ! Quick, run for cover !

Anonymous said...

Very much off-topic, Id like to ask wether anyone can identify the elephant that escaped from Gran Circo Union and went out on the highway in Mexico City yesterday, and was killed by a bus.

Reports refer to two different names; Hilda and Indra. She is said to have been apr 40 years.

Heres one of the newsreports:
http://www.elephant-news.com/index.php?id=4195

This is my individual file on her,
http://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=4222

Heres the list I made so far about elephants at Gran Circo Union:
http://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=725

(which probaly can be filled with many more elephants...)

At the same time Im also qurious if anyone knows where in Mexico Smahas elephant went?

regards,

Dan Koehl