Buckles Blog: Hanneford #5

Thursday, August 27, 2009

Hannerford-104, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Hal Guyon said...: Buckles, There was a old Native American Man, he may have been Cherokee, not sure. Anyway,I believed they called him Harold, he worked with the Hanneford Bulls for years, actually slept in the semi with them. Do you know anything about him ? I remember Tommy telling me years ago that he had passed away.; 27 August, 2009 10:14
Buckles said...: Harold was Chinese, "All I do is wok, wok, wok!"; 27 August, 2009 11:21
Anonymous said...: Harold's name was actually Haru. He was picked up by the concession dept in Hawaii, then hired by Tommy's father and then Tommy inherited him. All the years he worked for them, Struppi put money aside from his pay. Then after he was diagnosed with cancer he announced that he was collecting his money (quite a sum by then) and going back to Hawaii. That's where he died.; 27 August, 2009 15:52
Hal Guyon said...: Yeah Buckles, that is right, I remember that now, don`t why I thought different.; 27 August, 2009 16:17
Warren said...: The guy loading the elephants is Jackie. He was around the show for many years, primarily as elephant groom but was a huge help to me in managing the crew, dealing with the horses and Sabu the leopard, and a good friend.; 27 August, 2009 21:54

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