COVER STORY
Sometime between
1927 and 1930, the two
left Colorado, however,
22
moving to Fort
Pierce. The reason is
unclear. Perhaps they
had run out of money,
or they moved to
care for Zora’s ailing
mother. They lived on
Oleander Boulevard
near White City and
then moved to the
Card family home on
South Indian River
Drive around the time
Zora’s mother died
in 1932.
FORT PIERCE DAYS
The Alispaws decorated
the house with
Elephant trainer Fred Alispaw runs
through a trick in which an elephant
lifts a roadster.
many mementos of the
circus, including a lion-skin rug and an elephant-hide
wall hanging.
Opal Freer Spencer, whose family lived near the
Alispaws on South Indian River Drive, recalls their
home: “What an awesome sight greeted you as
you entered the front door and viewed a room that
wrapped across the front of the house and down the
south side to the kitchen. It was like a museum full of >> After leaving circus life, Zora poses outside her home in Colorado.
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