Today's mystery: what's this llama doing at a Manhattan party in 1959? (On West 18th Street to be more precise.) We think we may have found the answer, but all theories are welcome. For more, check out:
Robert W. Kelley The LIFE Picture Collection/ShutterstockPianist and conductor Skitch Henderson enjoyed the llama’s company during a party, 1959.A llama walks into a party, and then what?in 1959, show a very strange party in progress. A llama, a kangaroo, a monkey, some goats, several dogs and a couple of cats are all getting a bath in what appears to be an urban backyard.
Another LIFE story about a llama, published two years before these pictures were taken, offers a clue. It was a short one-page item about Animal Talent Scouts, a company run by Bernard and Lorrain D’Essen in New York City, who provided animal actors for theater and television—including Linda the Llama. A small photograph of Mrs. D’Essen in her living room shows a similar assortment of creatures: several dogs, a kangaroo and a llama.
Contemporary news reports about the business which supply the information that Lorrain D’Essen worked in advertising, where she realized there was a market for trained animals for commercials also confirm that the D’Essen’s New York City home, at 331 West 18th StHere’s another clue: the date on the unpublished photos was May 1, 1959, just a couple of weeks before the release of Lorrain D’Essen’s well-reviewed memoir,Though no record exists of that particular get-together, the evidence is...
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