Talk:Lucy the Elephant

message: I'm not sure about the proper name, but there's a much taller elephant building in Bangkok.  It's somewhere around 35 stories, and it's located on the main highway between the airport and downtown.
Here's a link to a picture http://www.thomasriddle.net/high-on-chatuchak/pages/elephant.htm (could not find working link)
Hopefully there's no copyright violation involved in making this link. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.29.34.219 (talk • contribs) 23:56, 27 December 2005
:I agree. I've removed the claim that it's the largest elephant building (which had be reduced to the even more implausible "largest elephant") because it was an unsourced claim. (incidentally, just linking to a page is not a copyright violation) -kotra (talk) 05:46, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The building in those pictures is not elephant-shaped. It has three legs (six if one is counted as a pair), it has sharp edges unlike elephant, ears are far too small and its "mouth" resembles more like duck's. 82.141.67.203 (talk) 22:54, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the largest elephant building 

message: Lucy the Elephant was the subject of a Jean Shepherd radio broadcast.  I say that should be discovered, and permission sought to link to the radio broadcast right here.  To give people a head start, visit A Salute to Jean Shepherd.  Another hint.  Also see 1969 -  More Jersey Slob Art, Salute to Margate Elephant Hotel, Learn
Anything from Books but the link seems to be failing.  I have heard the broadcast myself.  
I say a section should be added along these lines, and Jean Shepherd's radio broadcast should be part of the section. --SafeLibraries 07:16, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Shep opens show with a salute to the Margate Elephant. A classic example of NJ slob art. Last Sunday's Times Newspaper report that the Margate Elephant is dying at the age of 87 years."
What do you all think?  --SafeLibraries 07:28, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lucy the Elephant in Popular Culture 

message: I removed this line from the article:There was also a real elephant named Lucy, who was believed to be the fourth oldest captive elephant in the world. She was euthanized on September 1, 2006. As far as I can determine, this was not a very notable elephant & not much remembered today outside of a small circle of admirers. Googling  Lucy +euthanized +elephant  and similar combinations brings up only the single-day newswire item from Sept 2006. Ewulp 04:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euthanized elephant 

message: I disagree that Lucy meets the definition of an architectural folly: as its original name "Elephant Bazaar" shows, it served one of the usual purposes of a building.  That makes is a fanciful and unique building, to be sure, but I wouldn't class it as a folly.
On the other hand, one of the references so calls it, rightly or wrongly, hence the claim is verifiable.  I post this in the hope that someone will be able either to find a competing reference to justify deleting the claim, and perhaps discussing the point in more detail later, or else dispel my doubts on this point.  Robert A.West (Talk) 18:00, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it a folly? 

message: I've got questions on the dimensions of Lucy and her big sister which was on Coney Island. This article lists Lucy as 65 feet, which I believe was up to the top of her body and did not include the howdah, or at least the roof of the howdah, and lists Colossus's height as 122, presumably measuring the equivalent dimension and indicating Lucy was 53% the height of Colossus. The article on Elephantine Colossus indicates a height of 150 feet and claims it was more than twice the size of Lucy. The discrepancy between the articles would probably be accounted for by the howdah. Does anyone know for sure that Lucy's listed height of 65 feet does not include the howdah and what that actual dimension would be? PhantomWSO (talk) 19:44, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Was [[Elephantine Colossus]] ''actually'' more than twice as big?

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