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The Griffith Park Zoo was a city-owned zoo in Los Angeles, California that opened in 1912 and closed in 1966 with the opening of the Los Angeles Zoo. The abandoned site of the Griffith Park Zoo, complete with the ruins of animal enclosures, is now a picnic area and hiking trail in Griffith Park.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Old Zoo Picnic Area in Griffith Park )〕 ==History== The first zoo in Los Angeles was the Eastlake Zoo in East Los Angeles, which opened in 1885.〔 The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with a grand total of 15 animals. The new zoo was built on the site of Griffith J. Griffith's defunct ostrich farm. In the mid 1920s, film producer William Nicholas Selig donated many of the animals from his studios, which he had attempted to convert into an animal theme park, to the new zoo. It was expanded in the 1930s by work crews from the Works Progress Administration.〔 Most of the enclosures were built in the caves-with-iron-bars style which was then standard for zoos. As Los Angeles grew, the small Griffith Park Zoo was increasingly criticized as an "inadequate, ugly, poorly designed and under-financed collection of beat-up cages", despite drawing more than 2 million visitors a year. In 1958 the city passed a $8 million bond measure to create a brand new zoo.〔 Griffith Park Zoo closed in August 1966 and its animals were transferred to the new Los Angeles Zoo 2 miles away, which opened in November 1966.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Zoo history: early years )〕 The animal enclosures, with the bars removed, were left as ruins; picnic benches or tables were installed in some of them. The Zoo has been shown in at least one Episode of ''Starsky and Hutch'', ( Season One, Episode 7 - ''Pariah''), as well as ''CHiPs'' Season Two, Episode 11, known as ''Supercyle''. The area is also shown in the recently made historically-based cop drama ''Aquarius'', set just after the Zoo closed. File:Cages at griffith park zoo.jpg File:Animal housing at griffith park zoo.jpg File:Structures at griffith park zoo.jpg 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Griffith Park Zoo」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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