Selig Zoo Lion Hitch
This unusual photo comes from Jack Badal. He says it was taken
in Los Angeles' Selig Zoo around 1920. The lions are pulling a cart with feed
for other zoo critters. Note the keeper passing out food.
It would be quite shock for the visitor who came across this
hitch on the public walkways
|
Sunday, May 31, 2015
From Richard Reynolds #2
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
The lions look pretty docile, but I wonder how long they actually used the lions to pull the cart.
It was a fixture during its day. But what you see is far from a first. Cleopatra's lion trainers had them in harness pulling chariots. A few hundred years later, Louis Roth had a team pulling a vegetable wagon in Thousand Oaks.
Post a Comment