Imba yakakurumbira Peabody Hotel muDowntown Memphis haisi kungova nzvimbo yakanaka yekugara. Ichowo musha kune rimwe remaguta rakakurumbira-uye rakanyanya-mavara.
Zuva rega rega kusvika 11: 00 mangwanani, chikwata chemadariki mashanu emamald, akatungamirirwa neDuckmaster mukuru wehurumende anoita nzira yake kubva padenga rehotera kusvika kumahotera. Ikoko, chikwata chetsvuku chinobviswa kubva mufambisi uye John Philip Sousa's King Cotton March anotanga kutamba.
Mabata vanoenda muchitsime chePeabody's Grand Lobby apo vanofamba vachifamba-famba zuva rose sezvo vanhu vanozorora vari pedyo pavanopinda.
Pa5: 00 masikati, mhemberero yacho inopindurwa apo madhanki anodzokera kumba kwavo padenga reimba.
Iva nechokwadi uye usvika mangwanani kuti vana vawane nzvimbo yakanaka pamwe necheti yepeti. Nzvimbo yekuchengetedza iyo nguva dzose yakazara nevashanyi uye vagari vomunzvimbo imwechete vanoda kutora mifananidzo shomanana yechitambo. Kukwezva kunonyanya kufarirwa nemhuri , asi vanhu vakuru vanochengetedza kunze kwehotera kuti vaongorore manzwiro ezvakaitika kare, imomo kunotora kunwa mubhokisi rekuchengetedza kana kukwira kumusoro kune mamwe maonero akanaka muguta kubva padenga reimba ichifara , zvakare.
Iye zvino Duckmaster ndiAnthony Petrina; ndiye oga Duckmaster wechishanu kuti ashumire munzvimbo iyi sezvo tsika inotanga. Pamusoro pokutarisira madhanki, anofambisa mazendo uye anoshumira senhume kune hotera yekare.
Nhoroondo
Iyi tsika yakasiyana yakatanga muna 1932 apo maneja mukuru wehotera uye mumwe wevadzidzi vake vanovhima vakadzoka kubva parwendo rwokuvhima muA Arkansas. Vose vaviri vakafunga kuti zvingava zvinonakidza kuisa demo yavo yehupenyu mucheka reLobby. Yakagadzirirwa sa prank, vakanga vasina ruzivo rwekuti vadiki vaizove vakakurumbira sei nehotera vaenzi.
Nenguva isipi mushure mokunge uine chimiro ichi, marashi anorarama akachinjwa nemashanu mallard matatya.
Yaiva muna 1940 apo bellman anonzi Edward Pembroke akazvipira kubatsira kudzidzisa matatya. Pembroke akamboshanda semudzidzisi wemhuka yepiscus uye munguva pfupi akadzidzisa madhaki kuti afambe. Akave akafanirwa nePeabody Duckmaster uye akachengetedza zita iro kusvikira apera muchechi muna 1991.
The Ducks
Boka rega rega madhanki mashanu (rimwe varume nevakadzi vana) rinongoshanda kwemwedzi mitatu vasati vasimuka. Matatya anosimudzirwa nemurimi wekumba uye anodzoserwa purazi pavanenge vasimuka.
Hapana rwendo kuenda kuMemphis raizove rakakwana pasina kushanyira Peabody Ducks. Iwe haufaniri kuva muenzi wehotera kuti uone madhaki achifamba. Kutaura zvazviri, vashanyi vanokurudzirwa kuti vauye zuva rega rega uye vagoona izvi zvinonakidza.
The Peabody Hotel
149 Union Ave.
Memphis, TN 38103
Yakarongwa naHolly Whitfield, December 2017