Friday, December 04, 2009

Sarasota Revisited #16


Scan12446, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Looking East toward the menagerie building, first elephant is "Wallace Ruth".

LITTLE RUTH
1926 Benson's Animal Farm
1927 101 Ranch
1928-30 John Robinson Circus
1931-32 Sells-Floto Circus
1933-38 Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus
1939-66 Ringling-Barnum Circus
(Retired to the New Orleans Zoo at the close of the 1966 season)

Joey Ratliff might have a death date.

Posted by Buckles at 12/04/2009 06:15:00 AM

4 comments:

Ole Whitey said...

Did you mean to say "looking east" in both these pix? They look like opposite views.

04 December, 2009 06:34
JIM ELLIOTT said...

Buckles:
What's the name of the small elephant next to Ruth?

04 December, 2009 06:50
Buckles said...

I can't remember, probably one of the seven punks imported in 1952.
Hugo took the cream of the crop over to the baby elephant barn for training and the rest were in limbo waiting to find a home.
Every day we would collar them to bigger elephants and exercise them around the grounds.

04 December, 2009 09:11
joey ratliff said...

"Little Ruth" and "Wallace(?) Trilby" were retired to the New Orleans Audubon zoo in Dec. 1966 and stayed until Nov. 1971. I don't have any record of where they were sent.

04 December, 2009 11:15

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