Well, you’re talking about Connie the elephant. As you’re progressing, you have an elephant now, and you’re trying to figure out what to do with it. Yeah. Okay. Tom came in here with his wife and two or three elephants. Two elephants I think he had at first. Read More
Connie?… Read More
And they came in, they were chained out in the field, out in front. They had nothing to do with Connie. Obviously she knew the elephants were there. They were aware of her being here too. They saw each other usually. So he was here with two elephants, and they… Read More
We had no plan for it, but she was here, and we loved her. We took her out in the field, out in front. It was well fenced. She walked along with us and became a trained elephant. Not very well trained but trained. Our son Tom was working with… Read More
Tom met his wife there. His wife had been, this girl, had been boss showgirl on the Ringling show and was hired away from the Ringling show by Cliff Vargas, who was a gay and means nothing, a gay guy that owned this, this fabulous big show on the West… Read More
Where was I?… Read More
The three were sold by Allen Campbell, who was then in Little Rock?… Read More
What was your plan for this elephant now?… Read More
Baton Rouge. He had gone from being a keeper in Jacksonville to getting the title of elephant trainer in Baton Rouge. He did a salesmanship job on them, and it was a pretty good damn trainer. Anyway. Connie was not trained, not sold simply because we kept her hidden while… Read More
All right. Connie grew a tusk, not a tusk, a wart on the side of her face where her tusk would’ve come out. This was a wart, a wart that started when she was here maybe four weeks, three, four weeks. But by the time she got any size to… Read More
So eight of ’em. This took a good part of the afternoon, just doing that much training. Anyway, Connie, you’re with a wart on her face. Somewhere along about 30 days, we separated her. We put her around in a little barn that was in good shape then. Kept her… Read More
We didn’t advertise that we had another elephant. This is a good salesmanship. Once we moved her, she started rubbing the tusk on the concrete wall, and she eventually rubbed it completely off. By that time, we were in love with her, so that’s why we kept her. Read More
What was I (chuckling)?… Read More
So we’re talking about Connie as part of that elephant shipment. Yeah, yeah. Read More
How did you decide to keep that elephant?… Read More
They arrived here about 9:00 or 9:30 in the morning. We finished unloading at three in the afternoon, four in the afternoon, something like that. One at a time in the barn, chained an individual, rear, front rear, front and rear chains, and chained in place, front and rear. As… Read More
So they were all sold?… Read More
No, not by any means. Three of them were sold as a group to Providence, Rhode Island. They were picked up by Allen Campbell who had previously been an elephant man in the Jacksonville Zoo and worked for me after leaving Jacksonville. was coming and going. He wanted to be… Read More
Come here. She’s out with the dog. She went outside. Oh, with the dog. Okay. Read More
So Connie was one of these elephants?… Read More