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Title
Surfing elephant
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1962
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Surfers at Santa Monica were a little startled on April 28, 1962, to see a water-skiing elephant. Five-and-a-half-year-old Bimbo, Jr., one of the animal stars of the De Wayne Bros. Circus at Pacific Ocean Park, has the rare distinction of being the youngest elephant to perform this remarkable feat.
Type
Image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00056013
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 933
CARL0000059241
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/21158
Subject
De Wayne Bros. Circus
Elephants--California--Santa Monica
Circus--California--Santa Monica
Boats and boating--California--Santa Monica
Pacific Ocean Park (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Ocean Park (Santa Monica, Calif.)
Pacific Ocean
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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