"Manya" a former Billy Smart elephant was a real Sweet Heart, just about anybody could lead her around. |
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
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Posted by Buckles at 3/01/2016 06:09:00 AM
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"Manya" a former Billy Smart elephant was a real Sweet Heart, just about anybody could lead her around. |
Posted by Buckles at 3/01/2016 06:09:00 AM
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12 comments:
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)
What became of Manja ?
I lead Manya for the 10 AM elephant ride each morning, that summer!!
:-)
Cindy
Like the man said Cindy
"just about anybody"
We still Love You Cindy!
Ditto
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.
or was it Joan?
"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.
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.
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!"
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
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