Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Dora Franklin photos #10


Milwalkee Parade, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Milwaukee Parade 1970.
Gunther's second season with the Ringling Show and also included is Miss Franklin on the third elephant.
The three smaller elephants without blankets would be Baraboo's "Topsy", "Eva" and "Toby" making their debut with the show.

Posted by Buckles at 5/26/2009 05:47:00 AM

6 comments:

Henry Schroer said...

The men walking next to Gunther is Peter Kohnen, also known as Luxemburger. He worked for Gunther for over 30 years. Behind that is me, I can remember this Helmets very well.

26 May, 2009 17:32
Frank Ferrante said...

The helmets reminded me of some very early photos that Buckles posted a few days ago of Barnum & Bailey show around the turn of last century. ~frank

27 May, 2009 08:33
JG said...

Didn't Peter Kohnen butcher the meat for the tigers?

27 May, 2009 10:03
Henry Schroer said...

He did, so did Werner Edling and I did it when necessary. I was the first one to arrive in Venice Winterquartier after we came of the ship from Germany with the Tigers and Manfred Doval was there building the rigging for the Blue Show. Since I could not speak any English he was my translator to Mr. Steel and I ask for meat and a knife so I could feed the cats.
So Mr. Steel send Manfred and I to the hardware store in Venice and I got a Hacksaw and a Hunter knife and it took me forever to cut up the meat every day until the trucks arrived with all our equipment. It was most likely the worst butcher't meat ever.

27 May, 2009 20:25
Jack Ryan said...

Henry,

Hard to imagine you didn't speak English.

When I first met you in 1968, you were cussing with the best of 'em!

:)

Jack

27 May, 2009 21:55
Henry Schroer said...

My first girl friend on the show was french, she was a bit older than me and taught me English with a french accent, so in the beginning a lot of people thought I was french.

28 May, 2009 04:52

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