thecircusblog | March 21, 2009
The Johnny Cline elephants, Princess, Dell and Molly. Johnny’s wife, “Emelia”, better known as Milonga, is seen in this photo. Chata, Easter and their brothers Henry and Lalo are all Escalants. Milonga lives in Fiorida …at the age of 87 and doing quite well.
thecircusblog | March 21, 2009
Johnny and his daughter Kathy. In 1960 EK Fernandes hired Henry’s Chimps along with Johnny Cline and his animal acts. We were selected to go aboard the ship that took the animals to Hawaii. It was a seven day trip and John and I fed, watered and cleaned all of the animals. Each night there […]
thecircusblog | March 16, 2009
Mr. Carr was the elephant trainer at the Selig Zoo in the 1920’s before the name was changed to Luna Park Zoo. Located in Lincoln Heights, CA, just a few miles from downtown Los Angeles.
thecircusblog | March 6, 2009
In the bottom left corner is Joe Metcalf with Jenny 0ne of the zoo’s elephants. This photo taken in the early 1930’s at Luna Park formerly called Selig Zoo. The owner was WillIam Selig. Thoughout the years there were other wild animal trainers such as Olga Celeste, Louis Roth and Melvin Koontz. The park was located […]
thecircusblog | March 6, 2009
This is Tusko, one of many great circus elephants. Photo taken on the Al G. Barnes circus 1930’s. He was considered a great attraction during his time.
thecircusblog | February 26, 2009
Here is Babe when she was near seventy years old. Photo taken mid 60’s at World Jungle Compound, Thousand Oaks, Calif. When I was a child on the circus I would sneak out at night from our house trailer and go to the menagerie where I would curl up to Babe and Dutch and sometimes fall […]
thecircusblog | February 20, 2009
Peggy MacDonald with Baby Kae. No finer lady ever graced the sawdust arena than Peggy. This photo was taken in 1962.Peggy was born in Glenwood, Minnesota. 1923-2008 Her husband, Mac MacDonald set the example for all elephant trainers after him.
thecircusblog | February 10, 2009
This photo is of myself and Jack Badel, a dear friend of mine then and to this day. Jack had a little elephant by the name of Anna. We worked many shows together. Photo taken in 1968. He was not only an excellent performer and trainer but you could count on him to help out […]
thecircusblog | February 4, 2009
This photo was taken in 1943 on Russell Bros Circus. The last time I saw Mac and Peggy was at their home in South Texas. He gave me a bull hook …..what an honor.
thecircusblog | February 4, 2009
Arkie was one of my favorite friends. He was tough, but not mean, always joking and ribbing with you. He was an excellent bull man. This photo was taken on Ringling Bros. in 1953. My three heroes are Buckles, Mac and Arkie. When I worked my elephants I took their skills and applied them as best I […]
