Saturday, August 09, 2014

More Showmen #5


Elephant's name is "Ruth".

2 comments:

Chic Silber said...


The following timeline dates

this photo no later than 57

I only met JRN very few times

1st being at the old Garden in

65 when Victor Gaona introduced

me all around which gave me an

opportunity to get involved in

projects for "Big Bertha"

Opa said...

When I was a lad, a couple of the neighbor ladies escorted a few of the neighborhood on an outing to the Detroit Zoo. From the attendant, we learned that the two elephants out that day were named Ruth and Mary. This, coincidentally, were the names of our escort mothers. The disclosure was met with much laughter from the neighborhood kids, but drew a decidedly chilly response from the mothers.