The Brixton Zebra...

This picture shows a zebra-driven hackney cab travelling from Brixton towards Stockwell. The driver is Gustav Grais who ran a circus of zebras and baboons.

Here are some other examples of tamed Zebras at the beginning of the twentieth century:

Thanks to Vonalina Cake and Urban 75.

March 10th, 2010 | Tags: Baboon, Brixton, Circus, Gustav Grais, Rothschild, Zebra | Category: Location, Uncategorized

4 comments to The Brixton Zebra…

• Oh My Days! Brixton Zebra! « FREE SOUTH LONDON

  March 10th, 2010 at 12:22 pm

  [...] nicked – or as I like to say, looted for the revolutionary cause – from How To Be A Retronaut. But COME ON PEOPLE. Just when you thought Brixton couldn’t get much cooler, much funkier, [...]

• Radu

  March 10th, 2010 at 1:39 pm

  Du coq à l’âne: contemporary yet imaginary Zebras show up near the People’s Palace in Bucharest – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y-3lAYi7Vg

• AJ

  March 10th, 2010 at 2:00 pm

  I adore zebras! They are such under-appreciated live works of art! Every one of those photos is given a fresh dimension by the pattern of the zebra! Hurraaay to zebras everywhere!

• Von

  March 11th, 2010 at 8:49 am

  wow…really chuffed you took this one up…I love these images…I’ve even had dreams with zebras in!

  I wonder what other unusual forms of transportation there has been in history.