Sunday, October 31, 2010

St. Louis Zoo #1


Scan13181, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Neglected to date these pictures many years ago, probably from Jim Alexander.

This was always my favorite zoo. Whenever we showed at the nearby
St. Louis Arena I would take a tour.
However due to conflicting times, I never managed to see an animal show of any kind.
Roland Tiebor's seal always closed with "My Country Tis Of Thee!"

Posted by Buckles at 10/31/2010 06:16:00 AM

3 comments:

Jim A. said...

I believe the year was 1977, based on chimp show pictures and my wardrobe.

I had the sea lions play My Country Tis of Thee (or God Save The Queen for British guests). My horns were made from trombone bells and mouth pieces with pitch-pipe reeds for the different notes. Bob Politte, our Business Manager, liked to work with little machine shop projects and made them for the show.

I used the horns for several years. Although we never had a lot of protest problems about the shows we'd get a few negative letters in the paper about them. They say the shows claim to be educational but they still have the animals play musical horns. It was the only trick they singled out. The horns did go over well but they weren't a feature. I took them out, put in a few new things and kept working for a few more decades.

31 October, 2010 07:59
Wade G. Burck said...

Jim,
The white bucks are a classic wardrobe accessory, which will never go out of style. I have always believed Feld made a big mistake dressing GGW and Buckles in boots, instead of staying with this proven winner.
Wade Burck

31 October, 2010 12:20
Frank Ferrante said...

They would have looked GREAT with the purple outfit! ~frank

01 November, 2010 11:33

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