The Circus "NO SPIN ZONE": 05/27/12

Circus Hall of Fame 1971--Popsicle / Cleopatra / Champagne / Dottie, SB 22 ~1964

Popsicle / Cleopatra / Champagne / Dottie, SB 22
~1964 - Birth, India
~06/1965 - Chateau Theatrical Animals (New York World's Fair)
~1969 - Beardsley Zoo, Connecticut
05/24/1977 - Jurgen Schulz
05/19/1978 - Chehaw Wild Animal Park, Georgia
05/03/1985 - Buckles Woodcock
??? - Death

Radar,
Mr. Phelps, your next assignment, should you choose to accept, is to compile a list of known "rogue, bad, killer,bastard" elephants and how many people handled them, and most importantly "who" handled them on their road to destruction. Post/publish the "facts" if you have the stones and fortitude of a historian. Popsicle / Cleopatra / Champagne / Dottie was suggested as a starting point. I have never felt an animal listed as simply "dead" or "lost to followup" has been honorably studied. The fact that Popsicle / Cleopatra / Champagne / Dottie's most extensive bio came out of TES is pretty embarrassing. Maybe now is a good time to stop revering bandits, and revering others more deserving. Maybe now is the time to show the world we are making it right, instead of kicking it down the road, in an effort to be with it and for it. This message will self destruct in 5 seconds................

"Blond" Dolphins Rusty and Lilly Marineland Florida

Rusty 1968

Lilly Year Unknown

CETACEAN CIRCUS--Dennis and Elsworth

'Dennis' and 'Elsworth', two rare Risso's Dolphins (Grampus griseus) lived and performed at Marineland of Florida from 1966-1969.

The performing pair were among four Risso's Dolphins that were rescued by Marineland after stranding in May 1966 just a few miles from the oceanarium. The group photo shows the heavily-scarred males at the top in marked contrast to their female companions.

During their three-year run at Marineland, 'Dennis' and 'Elseworth' were the only members of their species on display in the Western Hemisphere. The only other place known to have displayed this rare dolphin was Enoshima Marineland in Japan.

An inseparable pair, the two male dolphins died within eleven months of each other in 1969. Their rescue from the 1966 stranding was just one of hundreds investigated by Marineland which led to the creation of the Stranding Network on America's East Coast, a nationwide network coordinated by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Courtesy of Greg May, King of Aquaria

Marineland Rescued Rare Dolphins - Florida Backroads Travel

Stock Footage - A trainer makes Risso's Dolphins perform tricks in a ...

Clyde Beatty 1963

Clyde Beatty 1965

Clyde Beatty Exhibit--Circus Hall of Fame Sarasota, Fla. 1967

Circus Hall of Fame Sarasota, Fla. 1968

Circus Hall of Fame Sarasota, Fla. 1960

What happened to the puppets at the Circus Hall of Fame? I recall them being over a hundred years old.

Circus Hall of Fame Sarasota, Fla.

1976

Unfortunately, I never went into the Circus Hall of Fame, but I drove past it. When I first went to work at Jungle Larry's in 1974 Roy Wells and I drove to Sarasota and past the Hall of Fame, and I glanced quickly at the beautiful wagon in the window. Coming from North Dakota and not being that into the circus, and not really knowing much about it, I wasn't interested in seeing it, so I recall we went to Dog and Suds and had a root beer and hot dog instead. Big regret...... It wasn't until I saw Ringling Bros. and GGW a few months later that I "got my socks knocked off" and learned what circus was, and decided I might like to try my hand at that.