Friday, May 29, 2020

LIONS #4


6 comments:

Chic Silber said...


The back end of that platform

can get dangerously slippery

Chic Silber said...


Ben Williams atop Col Joe

with his paperback book

Chic Silber said...


This was during the time

that his father Rex had

the herd on Vargas

Roger Smith said...

Kim Baer, the daughter of Parley and Ernestine Clarke Baer, worked with Colonel Joe over there. When I had to inform her of Joe's passing, on Krone, in Germany, she grieved for a month.

Chic Silber said...


Actually in failing health Krone sent him

to Platschow Elefantenhof under the care

of Sonni Frankello where he died in 2012

at the age of 48

Chic Silber said...


Joe was slightly taller at the

shoulder (by some questionable

masurements) than Tommy but not

nearly as massive a fellow

Both were good working elephants