This photo has obviously been mislabeled "ostrich". I find interesting the note on the back dated June 12th, 1915. "Went to a an entertainment last night and expect to go to either a dance or the circus tonight. Devil's advocate question, if Mrs. O.E. Erickson today viewed th Tacoma zoo or the circus, which one would have changed to become unrecognizable? Would she want to see the same thing that was available in 1915?
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Vintage Pt. Defiance Zoo--Tacoma, Washington
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Wade G. Burck
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Point Defiance was the first zoo I remember visiting as a kid. While my family lived in Puyallyup in the 80's we went almost every weekend. I have visited many times since and it is one of my favorite zoos. I believe Mike LaTorres' ex-wife Sally is still a keeper of elephants there. We visited Seattle often as well, but I never enjoyed it as much.
Casey, now you're reminding me of my own first zoo visit. The zoo was in Cleveland, OH and I was around four years old. There was an older style bear exhibit. Gunite rocks bordering a moat with a decorative fence and railing next to the path. (Those were the days before it became so important to build fences that people wouldn't climb in their attempts to commit suicide by animal attack.) There was a large brown bear standing on its hind legs on the rocks, and it seemed to dwarf a man standing at the rail in front of the fence. That bear scared the hell out of me. According to aunt for the next month I demanded that somebody check the porch roof outside my bedroom window for grizzly bear tracks every night before I'd sleep. Fourteen years later the one and only time I encountered a brown bear in the wild hiking in the Lewis & Clark forest below Glacier Park my first thought (after deciding to stand dead still rather than run) was something like, "But you're not so big after all, are you?" This may account for the perverse humor I found several years ago when my mom was still alive and living in a rural area where black bears raided the garbage cans nightly all summer long, but turned and fled when she'd unleash her pack of Jack Russell terriers out through the kitchen door.
Ben
Report on Casey Cainan - Kelly-Miller Hancock, MD lot visit today..Well, the homework was done for the excellent 4:30 PM full house today. Great visit in the backyard with Casey and his big cats.All around enjoyable day...Thank You Casey and the best of luck with your enjoyable tiger act...I recommend Bloggers catch Kelly-Miller and Casey's tiger act in the second half...My first Zoo visits were the Cincy and Columbus Zoo's growing up. And in later years I returned to the Columbus Zoo to view the PANDA Exhibit..To bad rain caught up with us late in the PM on the Kelly-Miller lot.
wow i also rember my first zoo i ever visited it was in Juarez mexico where the zoo keepers would dress like chimps or donkeys and try to hustle the tourist for nickels and dimes . the chimps would want to shine your shoes and the guys dress as donkeys would do a donkey act for the sailors. CleanRaul
Casey,
Should I have censored this comment because it was from a cute name? I know the gentleman and he is legitimate, so it was posted. Good job, my young friend. What did it take, a snow cone and a popcorn, or two snow cones and a floss. LOL
DPOwhite tiger,
Officially Casey resigned from this site a month ago, and we may have to reevaluate Jim Z's contributions in the coming elections.
Wade
Raul, you're cracking me up. What I remember about those Mexican zoos thirty years ago were the the army of photographers with those big old box cameras on a tripod pointed at every cage so I could buy a picture of me and my girlfriend to remember the moment forever. I think she lives in Atlanta and I've long since lost the snapshot.
Wade I always feel better with a Curator around if only in spirit.
Ben
Ben,
I thought Raul was talking about a zoo, and a show he had seen a little deeper in the country. I was going to point out that those weren't sailors. LOL
I haven't been able to get a hold of the Curator for a week, and was concerned. I was just hoping to flush him out.
Wade
Mr. Orr,
Thank you for the kind words. The check is in the mail (OABA dues I swear, no bribe)
Wade,
I was under the assumption everyone knew DPOwhitetiger was his email and blogger name. But you are rite it does have a cute ring to it....
And I got your sno-cone rite here...
Regards to all
Casey,
How would Mary Ann, Dianne, John Cooper, Ryan, Steve, etc, etc, know that. Everybody has the right to know who someone is. If you are in OABA now, find out about the organization ECU, and how much is funded to them, and why there has been no invitation to American individuals to to become a member of an organization that OABA supports?
Wade
Call me a cynic Wade. ECU may have figured out that it's hard enough to get some American show owners to pony up for a Sam's Club membership, let alone dues for on organization based abroad. Seriously though, if ECU did invite American participation I wonder if OABA wouldn't see that as "poaching."
Ben
Ben,
Please forget show owners for a moment, and address qualified individuals. I haven't been convinced that the newly organized ECU is not an elitist organization, with a personal agenda that is only open to some, for the benefit of some. Why not a world wide drive for membership, and don't forget it is called European and why did an American organization spend the funds to go to a self serving festival in support of it, and not offer it's member's the opportunity to support it also with a suggested membership pledge?
Wade
Wade,
Maybe they didn't, like I didn't know who ME was,,,,lol.
Far as OABA and ECU. I don't know what you did to anger them, they sent me applications,,lol
I will ask about ECU once I am excepted to OABA, if that happens.
Casey,
OABA sends applications to "interested" parties. While it may be better then nothing, I am not convinced that animal welfare is their main agenda, and that is what is needed. ECU has been around for a number of years. Did you get an application from them? Check out the list of members? Should one organization endorse another organization without membership approval?
Wade
fellas i know who OABA AZA CIA FBI ICE etc but who is EUC?something to do with equastrian or elephants or what .? confuseRaul
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