Design Drawing of exhibits and interactives - first plot plan of upper half of area these are all concepts of what it could have been. Some day I will explain why it became a mere shell of itself due to budget and persons in charge.
Design Drawing of exhibits and interactives - first plot plan of upper half of area these are all concepts of what it could have been. Some day I will explain why it became a mere shell of itself due to budget and persons in charge.
Design Drawing of exhibits and interactives - first plot plan of upper half of area these are all concepts of what it could have been. Some day I will explain why it became a mere shell of itself due to budget and persons in charge.
I first visited the LA Zoo when visiting my cousin in 1988, which I think is the year that this opened?
I remember that the cave had several animals like a skunk, ring-tailed cat, and vampire bats. Some of the exhibits had "holograms" of celebrities like Betty White and Gary Shandling talking about the animals. When I next visited it in 1997 most of the animals had been removed and all of the fancy technology was gone too. Now there are only blind cave fish and scorpions. Do you know why this part of the complex was abandoned as an actual animal exhibit?
Hi David you are right about the peppers ghosts images - here is a written answer in another post - No I dont know why they shut it down, I would have to find a very old set of plans, but I do remember the bats and the skunk. There was a great show via a peppers ghost of Betty White with a clothpin on her nose. The show ran 30 seconds and was a great education show - there was one in the owl exhibit in the cave. They were the best things in the CZ - The problem we had was we gave the educational interactives as a menu with high tech (expensive), large muscle activity, small muscle activitys and mental. The idea was to pick one of each catagories for each area. The problem came from the selection committee who only picked the high tech and due to the cost could not have anything else. Of course the high tech items broke down and there was no budget to fix them. If we had to do it over again, we would have never presented it to the Zoo that way.
