Saturday, June 11, 2016

From Bill Schriber

Could this possibly be Charley Franks who owned a nice looking female Asian named Sonita? He was also around 1000 Oaks and the Juingleland operation for a while.

I think you're right!

2 comments:

Roger Smith said...

In my era at the Compound, I heard the name, but never met the man.

Jim Alexander said...

Never met him either but Jules Jacot knew him from their Jungeland days I guess. Charlie came to St. Louis a few times to work as a clown at the Police Circus in the late 1960s. Also saw a postcard to or from Floyd Smith, remember Floyd asking about Sonita (who ended up at the San Diego Wild Animal Park). Floyd and Charlie might have been together in 1954 and early 55 when Floyd was at Jungleland training the A-B eight.