Friday, January 03, 2014

1952 King-Cristiani #3



Macon, Ga. winter of 1951-52

Written on the back by Steve Fanning:
(L to R)
1. Alice
2. Mona
3. Christy
4. Carrie
5. Babe
6. Margie
7. Shirley
8. Mary
9. Maud
10. Norma
11. Bessie
12. Konti

From Buckles:
Alice, Mona and Margie owned by Floyd King.
Christy, Carrie, Babe and Shirley owned by Oscar Cristiani
Mary, Maud, Norma, Bessie and Konti owned by Pete and Norma Cristiani (originally from Dailey Show)

10 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Didn't a few of these end up on

the Beatty herd

Chic Silber said...


I do recall a Mary Maude & Konti

Chic Silber said...


Didn't Steve have the Beatty herd

before Rex

Ole Whitey said...

Chic Steve came over with the "Norma Davenport five" in 1960, i e Mary, Maude, Bessie, Konti (for some reason called Bonnie for awhile) and Norma.

Chic Silber said...


By 62 or 63 Bessie & Norma were

either gone or changed names

Ole Whitey said...

All five of these were juggled around between Beatty-Cole, King Bros and Sells & Gray. Most of them eventually came back to B-C; I think all but Mary who died while with King and Norma who was on several shows after S&G and never came back to B-C.

Unknown said...

Two elephants named "Alice" and "Mona" were given to the Norfolk Zoo in Norfolk VA, (now called the Virginia Zoo). Mona died about 1976 and Alice about 1978. Are they the ones pictured here?
Don Bloomer

John Herriott said...

Alice had only one eye. She never performed but was a good work elephant. Tough to get around and bad if you approached her blind side. Maybe Buckles knows where she came from.

Buckles said...

She came from Benson's Animal Farm.

KenD said...

Steve Fanning was a cousin of my mother. I know relatively little about his career; your blog is the best source I have found. I would be interested in knowing more. kendoran@charter.net