One of my favorite spots we visited in Los Angeles was the Old Zoo. This place is amazing! It reminded me of the old Donald Duck cartoons, the ones when he goes to the zoo and the animals pace back and forth in these tiny cages. They don’t even have a natural environment. Just black metal bars. This zoo looks like it. It has become a public park. But, if you didn’t know about it you wouldn’t know it was there. It is tucked up in the hills of Griffith Park. The City has now added BBQ pits and picnic tables, but the real fun is when you get down and dirty! If you just follow the side walk you don’t find the real treasure, but if you start climbing and following the unbeaten path you will find ways to get INTO the cages! They are amazing. Cut out of stone, and extremely tiny. I really can’t believe animals lived like that. It is amazing how humans can be so stupid. Some of the wood buildings have gone but the foundations are still there. We found the old Zoo Keepers house, the chimney was still there. I think we found the old aviary. I wish they would label every thing. One of the sad things about it, is that is disappearing before our eyes. Some of the cages are half buried in the sand. The hill it is built on is changing and in the process is killing this wonderful site! Sometimes I wish I had so much money that I could spend whatever it takes to restore this place. My brother had a really great idea too, how spooky would it be to create a spook house there every Halloween? Needless to say, I loved it!
One of my favorite spots we visited in Los Angeles was the Old Zoo. This place is amazing! It reminded me of the old Donald Duck cartoons, the ones when he goes to the zoo and the animals pace back and forth in these tiny cages. They don’t even have a natural environment. Just black metal bars. This zoo looks like it. It has become a public park. But, if you didn’t know about it you wouldn’t know it was there. It is tucked up in the hills of Griffith Park. The City has now added BBQ pits and picnic tables, but the real fun is when you get down and dirty! If you just follow the side walk you don’t find the real treasure, but if you start climbing and following the unbeaten path you will find ways to get INTO the cages! They are amazing. Cut out of stone, and extremely tiny. I really can’t believe animals lived like that. It is amazing how humans can be so stupid. Some of the wood buildings have gone but the foundations are still there. We found the old Zoo Keepers house, the chimney was still there. I think we found the old aviary. I wish they would label every thing. One of the sad things about it, is that is disappearing before our eyes. Some of the cages are half buried in the sand. The hill it is built on is changing and in the process is killing this wonderful site! Sometimes I wish I had so much money that I could spend whatever it takes to restore this place. My brother had a really great idea too, how spooky would it be to create a spook house there every Halloween? Needless to say, I loved it! 
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That does sound like a very fun place - without the animals.
It reminds me of the zoo in Paraguay. I agree with you about animals in small cages. Unfortunately, in Paraguay, the animals are still in small cages. They had tigers in cages not more than 30 square feet. I'm not exaggerating, 5x6 feet-ish. All concrete and black bars, just like you described it. There is one detail that you missed. All those dirty animals in small cages smelled horrible.
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