Los Angeles Alligator Farm
 1906 postcard from the Los Angeles Alligator Farm | |
| Location | Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 34°04′07″N 118°12′07″W / 34.0685°N 118.2020°W |
| Status | Defunct |
| Opened | 1907 |
| Closed | 1984 |
| Owner | Joe Campbell |
| Theme | Animal theme park |
The Los Angeles Alligator Farm, located next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, was an alligator farm and a major city tourist attraction from 1907 until 1953.[1]
Originally situated across from Lincoln Park, at 3627 Mission Road[2], it moved to Buena Park, California in 1953, where it was renamed the California Alligator Farm.
The Buena Park location was a “two-acre, junglelike park” across from Knott’s Berry Farm. Circa 1974, it housed “more than a hundred species representing all five orders of reptiles, with an emphasis on crocodilians.” Alligator and snake shows were held daily in summer and weekly in the off-season.[3]
The attraction was shut down in 1984 after attendance dropped below 50,000 people annually, and the animals were relocated to a private estate in Florida.[4][5][6]
See also
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[edit]- ^ The most frightening zoo in American history, Scenes from the Los Angeles Alligator Farm, by Wolfgang Wild
- ^ "https://csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma990013853330205115&context=L&vid=01CSL_INST:CSL". csl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2025-01-23.
{{cite web}}: External link in|title= - ^ Sunset Travel Guide to Southern California. Menlo Park, Calif.: Lane Publishing Co. 1974. p. 58. SBN 376-06754-3.
- ^ OC Gazette Archived 2014-04-05 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Los Angeles Times
- ^ USC Digital Library
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