The "rock" the elephants are standing on is a geological formation scattered all through the Bronx. Ben Trumble ate many a lunch on this particular one.
Monday, June 9, 2008
The Bronx Zoos Gunda and the African, Congo
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Ben Trumble rather liked to eat lunch in the plethora of little Italian restaurants along Arthur Avenue. (Michael Corleone makes his "bones" in Godfather Part I taking out a corrupt cop and a narcotics dealer in a little Arthur Ave place.) However in those Ramen Noodle moments when pay day was still fair off at the end of the week -- I may have lunched on that same rock. I want to say the biggest single outcropping in the park proper was incorporated in an exhibit of European or North African hoofstock. (Goats.) But it's been a long time and the mind wanders. Going to try to visit the zoo early Wednesday morning on my way to Kelly Miller in NJ. I think my favorite "perk" working in the Bronx was getting off the #2 train at Pelham Parway early in the morning, grabbing a regular coffee at a deli under the tracks and slipping into the zoo through the main gate when security unlocked it for 7:00 AM employee arrivals. I could pick a rock around Cope Lake and watch the morning unfold while I sipped my coffee and thought how lucky I was to work there -- in the place that I'd read about and dreamed about as a kid. I may have learned more in Florida before the Bronx, or the three I was in Honduras rebuilding the zoo in Tegucigalpa, but New York was the biggest zoo in the biggest city in the States. And that was special.
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