Saturday, November 22, 2014

St. Louis Zoo #10


1 comments:

Jim Alexander said...

This is the STL Zoo chimp show in the late 1930s. The trainer was Leon Smith. The location of the barred arena is in the area of today's Lakeside Inn restaurant in the middle of the Zoo. (Also where they presented the Zoo's first sea lion show in 1933, then it was cancelled.) The chimps were kept in the basement of the Reptile House when not performing.