Reserve the Ducky Day Family Package to experience this very special tradition at The Peabody Memphis. Nearly 90 years after the inaugural march, the ducks still visit the lobby fountain from 11am to 5pm. Pembroke became Peabody Duckmaster, serving in that capacity for 50 years until his retirement in 1991. In 1940, Bellman Edward Pembroke, a former circus animal trainer, offered to help with delivering the ducks to the fountain each day and taught them the now-famous Peabody Duck March. Thus began a Peabody tradition which was to become internationally famous.® Three small English call ducks were selected as 'guinea pigs,' and the reaction was nothing short of enthusiastic. The men had a little too much Tennessee sippin' whiskey, and thought it would be funny to place some of their live duck decoys (it was legal then for hunters to use live decoys) in the beautiful Peabody fountain. While a Windows version is still in development, you can install the DuckDuckGo search tool as an extension on other browsers, including Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, and Safari, as a direct link.How did the tradition of the ducks in The Peabody fountain begin? Back in the 1930s Frank Shutt, General Manager of The Peabody, and a friend, Chip Barwick, returned from a weekend hunting trip to Arkansas. The search engine is available to install for free on Android and iOS devices and now includes Mac.

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