Saturday, November 24, 2018

HEAD PIECES #4


7 comments:

Chic Silber said...


This is Oscar Cristiani's herd

Perhaps in San Diego with photo

by Eric Beheim ?

Chic Silber said...


1 of these elephants is Shirley

She is living at Wild Adventure

in Valdosta Georgia at age 74

Perhaps the oldest known living

Chic Silber said...


She was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)

in 1944 & brought to the US in 1946

Eric said...

Taken on September 28th, 1969 at a Rudy Bros. Circus outdoor date in San Diego’s Balboa Park. (Today, some 49 years later, this lot is nicely landscaped.) In the background can be seen the Ford Building from the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition. (Today, it houses the Aerospace Museum.)

Chic Silber said...


Does the Quiroga version of Vargas

still play the Balboa Park date

I've enjoyed many great visits to

the park while working on shows

at The Old Globe & on a TV project

at the zoo with Pietro Canestrelli

Eric said...

We get down to Balboa Park several times a year for the San Diego Orchid Society’s periodic sales. (Pat collects orchids.) We also have Zoo memberships and whenever out-of-town guests are staying with us, arrange to take them on one of the Zoo’s guided behind-the-scenes tours. (The tour of the Elephant Care Center is a particularly good one.) Don’t know if Vargas still plays there. (They used to set up next to the old Naval Hospital.)

Chic Silber said...


You might know that Selby Gardens

in Sarasota is world orchid central

My sailboat & I used to live next door