1979 – “Jumbo” the Mechanical Elephant – Restoration by Larry Gavette

In 1979 an American named Larry Gavette, who lives in Waterford, M.I., U.S.A., took his daughter to Bald Mountain Riding Stables for a pony ride. There he found a some-what dilapidated life-sized mechanical elephant and he bought it,  trailer and all, for 125 dollars. It was in poor condition and at first he wondered whether …