Tuesday, March 01, 2016

#8 More Circus World

"Manya" a former Billy Smart elephant was a real Sweet Heart, just about anybody could lead her around.

12 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Hey that's not "just about anybody"

That's the guy who provided 3 of

his 4 kids to carry the Woodcock

name into the next generation

(of course he had Melissa's help)

Ryan Easley said...

What became of Manja ?

Cindy Potter said...

I lead Manya for the 10 AM elephant ride each morning, that summer!!
:-)
Cindy

Chic Silber said...


Like the man said Cindy

"just about anybody"

Buckles said...

We still Love You Cindy!

Chic Silber said...


Ditto

GaryHill said...

Manja and Tagu lasted longer that Jonne and Christine..they were gone from Winter Quarters ..Tagu didn't go to Circus World did he? I don't remember him on the march from Quarters to train to Circus World.

GaryHill said...

or was it Joan?

Buckles said...

"Joan" and "Christine" Christ! I had forgotten all about them!
One of them was cross-eyed, the Smarts' tossed in a couple of ringers there.
They drug me all over winter Quarters.

Buckles said...

D.R. Miller finally bought them and sent a truck down with John Carrol to pick them up.
Battle Royale, they had to be dragged in, Axel gave me a hand, one of them tried to tip the truck over.
After they were finally loaded Axel confided he had never seen anything like it and how much fun it was.
I was told by the lady in charge they were going straight to Mexico.

Buckles said...

The blow-off came when the laid the sweaty cash on Mr. Felds's desk, he looked at it for a second then turned to Baker Brown and said, "You count it!"

Chic Silber said...


Baker was their golden boy for a while

He had opportunity to be General Mgr

for each of 3 shows including Red &

Blue & Monte Carlo before being found

to be a stuffed shirt phony & a snake

He had many of us fooled for a while