Friday, February 3, 2012

Busch Gardens Elephant Acts

Roman Schmidt 1975


Who is this, and what act is this?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wade,
for some reason I cant enlarge these two pictures. But am I right in saying, that there is a Chimp riding the elephant behind Roman

Bjorn.

Wade G. Burck said...

Bjorn,
The pictures are only one size, sorry. Yes, that is a chimp. It may have been his father Hugo's chimp. Quite common, "back in the day," we had elephant riding chimpanzee's at Jungle Larry's named Clark and Mark. Geez......

Wade

Anonymous said...

whoops I forgot about that,but I always thougth that his father only traind one chimpansee act in the 1950's, but what happend to Romans black rhino and elephant act, did he ever worked them in a show?

Bjorn

Wade G. Burck said...

Bjorn,
This wasn't a chimp from Hugo's act, but I recall him having a chimp after he retired from Ringling Bros. I had forgotten about the rhino, but I believe Roman worked it with an elephant at Busch Gardens. Does anyone else recall?

Wade