Brookfield Zoos Historic Art Deco Pachyderm House--Interior

Unfortunately I don't have dates for these photos, but the top photo and the bottom one are the two oldest. The ones in the middle are after the effort was made to "lighten" up the building with the expanding of exhibits and the African paintings on the wall. If you were blind you would know what building you were in. The cornucopia of smells combining elephant, rhino, tapir, hippo was indeed a sensation. The clip above from 1956 has footage starting at 1:12 of the dark interior of the building.