Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Mack MacDonald #12


This shot was staged on the Hanneford Show with Tommy, Peggy and Mack in the background presenting "Ina", "Opal", and "Louie".
Doesn't get any better than this!

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


How in the world did Opal get to

perform on Anna May's big tub or

was this the twin of her tub

Buckles said...

Back in 1965 when I settled up with D.R. Miller over the division of the Miller-Woodcock elephant act, D.R. took "Lydia","Fanny" and the truck, leaving me afoot with "Anna May" which was all we wanted anyway.
My mother was nestled away in the home in down town Hugo purchased the previous winter so my wife and I decided to check out the five acres of jungle we now owned in Central Florida.
I scrounged around out back in
Winter Quarters and located an old abandoned trailer but it was too tall for "Anna May" to step up into so I took back one of the tubs and after she was loaded, decided to toss in the other two.
So with Barbara driving the car and trailer and "Anna May" and I in a rented tractor, delapidated trailer and three bull tubs we were Florida bound.
Not long after, the same caravan retraced it's tracks headed for MacDonald's place in San Antonio and a new job with the Polack Bros. Circus.
So to answer your question, two tubs remained in Florida while the third was needed to get "Anna May" out of the truck as as far as I know, remains there til this day.