Jim, here's another opportunity for you. Are those "Brown Bears" in the photo above? LOL
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Vintage Zoo Atlanta/Grant Park
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3 comments:
The post card wasn't even close. Those are Malayan Sun Bears -- now, I believe, an endangered spieces.
I visited the Atlanta Zoo in 1962. Joe Frisco Sr. and I went down from Cincinnati to pick-up a tiger and I didn't get to see everything. The cat exhibit was typical ceramic tile architecture of the day.
Can't think of the year, sometime in the 1980s I think, the Zoo and its USDA inspectors were exposed for a number of violations of animal care. (I remember our inspectors became less friendly.) The people that would turn the Zoo around in the public's eye did just that. The "new" institution was Zoo Atlanta. When RJR 3 writes his book I'll know the date.
That sounds like around the same time that the USDA started carrying cameras with them and then started bringing two inspectors on every inspection trip.
Bob
Bob,
I never thought about it before, but you are correct. That is about the time that USDA started with the two inspector system, and had always wondered why, until Jim mentioned the scandal, which I only knew little about. Do either of you know if they were pieced off, or just looked the other way as a favor?
Wade
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