Monday, March 19, 2012

James Bros. #1

SAVE2794 by bucklesw1
SAVE2794, a photo by bucklesw1 on Flickr.

Here's three more nice little elephants, "Lovie", "Sue" and "Jackie".
Oddly enough, seven years later while we were at the Ringling Park I got a call from Sid saying that the show was about to fold and would Ringling be interested in buying them, he was asking $25,000.
I called Kenneth right away, a deal was struck and I sent Gery Jacobson up to the show to escort them back. On arrival I immediately changed their names to "Louie", "Sid" and "Juno".
Later out of curiosity I did a sucker thing and asked him what he paid and he replied, "More than I wanted to but less than he was asking!"
I'm not sure, but as far as I know all three are still with that Corporation.

1 comments:

DanKoehl said...

According to Bob Cline, Juno is since 2002 ( April 25th ) to present at El Paso Zoo in Texas, the other two at Ringling breeding center.