Blog is late, late. late this morning.
Pictures wouldn't enter and I had to wait until Shannon could come over and straighten things out.
This is Ben and "Anna May" on the Ringling Show in 1978.
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Monday, May 11, 2015
Ben Williams #1
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I’ve often wondered why the Felds didn’t do more to build Ben up into the Blue Unit’s equivalent of Gunther. (Ben was younger than Gunther and certainly would have appealed to the Felds’ youth-oriented target audience.)
Over the years Kenneth Feld mentioned to me, "You know, my father and I had great plans for Ben."..... and I always answered "Didn't we all?"
The first time I got to see ben performing solo with the leopard and Anna may was at an outdoor date near Cleveland Ohio on a school football field. He just amazed me at how fast the tempo was and the animals terrific response. A true showman if ever there was!
Thanks for the offering again today Buckles. I understand there's a lot of emotions that goes with such a posting.
Bob
Fond memories seeing you all perform in Oakland and the great write-up in the souvenir program (which alas was stolen in one of my moves).
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