Monday, January 10, 2011

1946 RBBB Elephants #1 (From Buckles)


Scan00000010147, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

My dad received these first few pictures from Freddy Logan just back
from the Navy.

He wrote on the back of this one:
"Back row at far left- Sudan (African), Ringling Jenny next team
Toni & Joski.
Front row- Dolly, Minnie, Big Modoc and Big Trilby.
Cock Robin standing in front of Dolly (smoking a pipe).

"Only elephant I ever knew that smoked a pipe was Mac MacDonald."
Buckles

Posted by Buckles at 1/10/2011 06:02:00 AM

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Could this be a feed and water stop? The donniker tent in the back would lead me to that conclusion.
Bob Kitto

10 January, 2011 10:29
Richard Reynolds said...

This is a Bob Good photo from 1942. I still have the catalogue offering it for sale for 20 cents.

11 January, 2011 11:03
Larry allen Dean said...

would the elephants be wearing harness at water stops ?
I've heard that some horses traveled in harness

11 January, 2011 11:50
Wade G. Burck said...

LAD,
Good eye and good point. I note a number of the harnessed elephants, chained to each other, via the harness you point out. Maybe they did races, like Sells Bros. in 1894, and the only way they could keep the elephants from starting the race early, was to put harness on and chain them together, when they were taken out of the train for water stops.
I hope all is well, friend.
Wade Burck

11 January, 2011 14:28
johnny said...

same old story. when you have some 300 sets of harness, collar5s and hames where do you store t6hem also when the train unloaded the horses immediately went to work. same with work elephants. in my young years all circus elephants on overland mud shows road over the road with harness on, including the famous mills bros. burma. note; none of these animals could lay down in the cars. tanglefoot.

11 January, 2011 16:34

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