On the subject of masts and poles!

When Sid Kellner bought the Mills show tent, equipment, seat wagons, etc. this tent was included, a 120 with three 40's. When we joined, the show had a half grown elephant named "Ellie" and three smaller ones "Lovie", "Sue" and "Jackie". "Ellie" was broke for harness so she and the fork lift would go up with the quarter poles, it would take time but fortunately we played mostly on parking lots (ala Vargas) and the surfaces were hard. I might add that my wife refused to have "Anna May" (being artistic) involved in such fol de rol. So the following winter I harnessed up two of the punks and I was astonished how much power they could generate and they could whip around on a dime, it was fun. They even pulled up the aluminum center poles with little effort. Some years later in October of 1976 Kenneth contacted me at Circus World saying he had gotten a call from Kellner offering to sell these three and I recommended them highly. So after a deal was made I sent Gary Jacobson to the show to bring them back and upon arrival immediately changed their names to "Louie", "Sid" and "Juno". As far as I know they are still under Ringling ownership, I stopped keeping records in 1996.