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Tuesday, July 01, 2014
Winter 1962-63 #1
 Josip Marcan's recent comment about Ponce De Leon, Florida brought to mind the occasion the winter of 1962-63 when Barbara and I drove down from Hugo to that city for a brief visit with her mother who was in charge of Bill Green's animals and appearing at a local park. It was on this occasion we learned she had just purchased 25 acres of land down around Tampa while visiting another daughter Hope and planned to settle there. She eventually built a home there on 5 acres and then sold 5 acres to Hope who did likewise, a third daughter Billie settled on 5 and I blissfully arise each morning on the remaining 5, just across the street. I might add that Billie's surviving husband Gordon Messer, with whom I chat at the mail box every afternoon, swears we are related since my father's real name was Messer, having been adopted by the Woodcock's of Hot Springs, Arkansas in infancy. |
Winter 1962-63 #2
The elephant is "Queenie" that Mrs. Ray trained when quite small, later owned by Walt King and so far as I know remains out in the golden west with Gatti-Charles.
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Winter 1962-63 #3
Mrs. Ray had trained this zebra to do a pick-out number which I thought was quite remarkable.
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Winter 1962-63 #5
On that trip we also stopped by Chet Juszyk's place up around Orlando and camped with them were Bert, Marie and Sandy Pettus with the former Ed Weidaman elephants "Zetta", "Peggy" and "Dorothy" then owned by Larry Higgins who for some reason had renamed them the "Downie Bros. Elephants".
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Monday, June 30, 2014
From Josip Marcan #1
For those who know Andre
Skarbecki, here is his
monument.
He was buried on private
property in Ponce De Leon, Fl. about 15
minutes from my
ranch.
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From Vicki Cristiani
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHIRLEY!!!!
Can't believe our beautiful, self-reliant Shirley is celebrating yet
another birthday. Wonderful to know she's enjoying her well deserved retirement
in peaceful surroundings and, more importently, being cared for in such a loving
way. My dad must be smiling down---along with her beloved sisters: Christy,
Carrie, Babe and Emma---the clown of the Cristiani herd.
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