I saw one of these photos on Instagram today and it beggars belief. Check out the 9 photos on top with no. 4 and 9 looking like something from a horror film. I didn’t think I would ever see a wild animal story crazier than Tippi Hedren’s pet lions but this may be it.
This video provides some useful context.
It’s California, Jake…
Dan
I was expecting LA meant Louisiana in the title.
And to think that some people these days complain that screen time is bad for kids. Doesn’t seem so bad in comparison.
Elyria, Ohio had a couple of alligators in the fountain on public square in the early 1900s. There were quite a few stories in the newspaper about their escapades which included eating a duck or two. They brought them indoors over the winter and stored them in a pool in the city hall basement.
Every once in a while the local stations will do stories on this kind of thing. I’ve heard of the alligator farm, and the ostrich farm, and the race track and the canals with gondolas in Venice.
Me too.
I went to the Alligator Farm in the early 60s, I liked it much better than Knotts Berry Farm which was right across the street. The undisputed star of the show back then was M’Kulu, the largest Nile Crocodile in captivity. Here he is with keeper Ken Adams, who went on to establish the Black Hills Reptile Garden:
Missed the edit window, correction: Ken Ernest --grandson of Francis Earnest who opened the original park.
I visited the Alligator farm when it was in Buena Park. This would have been
about the mid to late 1960’s. It wasn’t the alligators that I found scary - they were about
8 feet away and behind a fence. It was the cage of rattlesnakes with only a thin pane
of glass between me and the snakes.
And you probably couldn’t speak Parseltongue.
Looks more like Florida to me.
1960s? Bah! You can order online and have your very own alligator shipped to your home today.
Quote: “(W)atching them attack prey in a watery fury is beyond entertaining.”