Friday, January 21, 2011

To Randy Peterson


Scan00000010207, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

I lifted this from the 1974 Blue Show program but it doesn't include
the elephant. As I recall that gimpy "Tagu" drug it around the track.
Gary Jacobson or Daryl Atkinson might remember.

8 comments:

Chic Silber said...

Looks like this was shot at the

Bayfront Arena in St Pete maybe

during the TV taping of the show

Thanks Buckles

Chic Silber said...

Way off to the left I can make

out the roof of the clown cage

& some of the large foam leaves

of 1 of the magic mushroom kiddie

rides that had pneumatic posts

to lift the leaves & manually

operated duck tubs for the kids

these were REALLY heavy units

I may still have the paper models

of this spec somewhere

Darryl said...

Could have been Tagu,Karen,or Cora I dont remember.

Chic Silber said...

During that Spec we had 4 units

pulled by elephants including the

pony float the clown cage & the

hapiness train split with the

locomotive & 1 car separated from

the 2nd car & the caboose

Ryan Easley said...

When did Tagu die?

Buckles said...

We traded her to Marine World in Calif. for a half grown female African I named "Tyronza" in 1975.

GaryHill said...

I sure thought Tagu was sold? I didnt think Axle had him. Buckles wrote me a letter when I was at Great Adventure asking me if I wanted to trade Tagu and Monya for a couple of my babies in NJ. That would of been around that time? I was offered to buy George from Jim Fowler and they would not let me keep him there so I asked Buckles if he wanted him and I think Ben picked him up from a park in Virginia?

GaryHill said...

Capt beat me by two seconds...:) Actually they wanted to give George away to anyone who would come pick him up...