Friday, February 18, 2011

Excerpt from Bill Woodcock letter to Dick Conover 1954

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Posted by Buckles at 2/18/2011 05:50:00 AM

2 comments:

Buckles said...

Mac trained the Besalou Elephants at Goebel's place in 1,000 Oaks, Calif. and the Polack Show opened in Flint, Michigan.
I'm glad I didn't have to put up the arrows if the baggage car was routed by way of Dallas, Texas.

19 February, 2011 10:59
Roger Smith said...

No one knows how many camels Goebel sold, but they remained a major enterprise long after Jungleland closed, in 1969. I could never figure out who wanted that many of those disagreeable bastards, but Goebel sold them as fast as he could bring them in. On our Castle jump from Odessa, Texas to Portland, Oregon, in '73, I stopped at their continued operation in Tehachapi, California, to visit Eugene and Annabeth Goebel and a staff of 3 or 4 men. The new location was alive with camels on vast acreage and all of them were sold, waiting to be shipped out. OK, they were dromedaries, but I wasn't having any.

19 February, 2011 13:52

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