Animals to the Calgary Zoo
Audio recording of Laura Hibbs, daughter of Bingo Hauser. Conducted by North American Carnival Museum & Archives, June 2017.
“The animals that went to the Calgary Zoo, it was the big alligator and it was in a big box that looked like a coffin, and there was dad and mom and Bob and I, and we drove that box, one of us had to share the back seat with the alligator. We had to do a motel stop and it was in the off season, so it was late Fall I guess, so weather was getting chilly so the alligator couldn’t stay over night in the car, its bed got put into the motel along with us. Mom and dad were hauling this big box that looked like a coffin into the motel, oh gosh. But ya, that was one of the animals that was given to the Calgary Zoo along with this cute little kinkajou.”