Sunday, August 7, 2011
Lincoln Park Zoo Bears--The day Skazka climbed out of the exhibit, using a frozen ice fall-- 1976
Can anybody identify any of the member's of the Lincoln Park Zoo staff, hustling to get a sedated bear back into her exhibit, where she belongs?
Lincoln Park Zoo Bear Pit's
I love these photo's because they really jam "political correctness." :) Crusty old zoo keeper smoking a cigar in front of an old barred bear enclosure. Jim A., do you recall this gentleman's name. I think he was Polish and was a long time bear keeper at Lincoln Park.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't believe Lincoln Park exhibit's Brown Bears any more. I think once Mark Rosenthal and staff started producing the soup out of Spectacled(Andean) Bears and additional space was needed the Brown's were 86'd. 
Vintage Lincoln Park Bear Pit's
Why do you suppose the metal was added under the overhang bar? To soften and hide the "old hook" bear pit look of the exhibit's?
Vintage Lincoln Park Bear Pit's
1972
Dr. Fisher 1972
Dr. Fisher and guest, 1966
Mike and Skazka, September 8, 1961. Note the creative grill work around the door lock to protect limbs. You have to wonder why they would be unlocking it with an animal in the enclosure. Or was it possibly added to keep the bears from fooling with the lock?
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