The back of this picture say's simply, " This appliance was left behind in the keepers break room at Riverdale Zoo. It is a best money can buy micro wave oven. That is what Toby Styles called it anyway, after collecting $50 from each of the keepers at Riverdale Zoo, so he could buy it from a Pakistani street peddler on Younge Street for $300." Can anybody verify this? If that is the case, this "Styles" chap is definitely zoo management material.
Riverdale Zoo/Toronto Zoo
Riverdale Farm is a 3.0 hectare (7.5 acres) municipally operated farm in the heart of Cabbagetown, an urban neighbourhood in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
From 1888 this was the site of the Riverdale Zoo. The zoo relocated to a much larger facility in Scarborough in 1974 and became known as the Toronto Zoo.
Monday, November 22, 2010
Ghost Zoo--Riverdale Farm, Toronto Canada
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Wade G. Burck
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I spent a lot of time in the keepers "break room" and that was not in there. The staff area was located immediately below the Monkey house pens on the south side of that building and the keepers cooked on a large gas stove. There was a stairway entrance from inside the building, located between the Monkey House and the Lion House, which was actually one long building separated by a large sliding door. A second outdoor entrance was located at the bottom of the stairs, To the wast of the keepers lunch room was the lockers and then the workshop. To the west of the lunchroom there was a food preparation area and then a walk-in freezer.
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