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Friday, May 14, 2010
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How many others did this? I seem to recall that Shorty Hinkel did this on CBCB.
Then there was Mother Dulllum with the smoking hot cup of coffee.
Couldn't do this today or the workplace police would have you thrown out.
Bob Kitto
Shorty's camel was a flat profile
nicely painted as I recall
It might have been made by Kenny
(Tweety) Dodd or Barry Sloan
To the unaware, "Camels" was once a popular cigarette.
Easily recognizable to the audience of the day.
Howard ran a tube thru the camel
so a cigarette could be placed in it's mouth while Howard puffed on the other end.
Where the tube exited the camel I couldn't say.
As the print & radio ads said
"I'd walk a mile for a camel"
You know full well where the
tube came out
Howard Bryant was a brother or half-brother to the Tyndall brothers, long-time Jungleland trainers. Henry Tyndall had the Tarzan and Jungle Jim chimps--Cheetah, Tamba and those guys, with the requisite back-up chimps available off-camera. Norman was the camel man. He and his herd appeared in every desert picture from the 1930s until we closed. Often Norman had 4 or 5 camels, dromedaries, you name it, slogging across the Algodones Dunes, with nifty cinematic tricks giving us a dozen or more. Howard Bryant was in the Compound before my time, but he left some colorful memories there.
Howard Bryant was my great uncle. He was my grandmothers brother . He might have been related to the Tyndall brothers by marriage. I know that his wife was American Indian and had some brothers. My mother has several circus pictures including a copy of the one you posted.He lead an interesting life .
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