#023: London Zoo 1965
8 October, 2007 - posted in art & design - 1 Comment - leave your own!
Wow. Look what we found… flicks from 1960s London Zoo. Check - it - out!
A polar bear a long way from home! Chilling on bear mountain.
Is this the equivalent of an albino polar bear?! They only have sloth bears here nowadays.
Penguins on the beach… they lived in Berthold Lubetkin’s crazy reinforced-concrete slide-filled modernist enclosure until they were recently relocated to a more natural pool (post-modernist).
sleepy lion
The elephants used to live in a big concrete castle until they were moved to Whipsnade Zoo in 2001. Their castle has since been overrun by pygmy hippos (the mini ones) and camels.
Wow a rhino! They are now pretty rare so you won’t be seeing any at London Zoo. Giraffes live in that bit now and they can actually see over that little fence.
Some zoos get a bad reputation but many do valuble conservation work. Plus London Zoo has Camels, Llamas and Alpacas so nuff said!
Not London Zoo but the legend behind the lens, Bill Hoppett (and a swish ride)
Links:
London and Whipsnade Zoos
More on the penguin pool
October 13th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
yeah - are these scans of the slides - where d’you do them - i’ve been scannin some 35mm hit up the blog son yeah!
ZOO - he has a sweet ride!