Melbourne Zoo Melbourne Zoo in the 1980's

[Mark O]

6. What happened to the 5 pole sculptures that were in the fountain at the zoo entrance in the 1980's?
On a visit in 2007 when I still lived in Melbourne, I noticed they'd been relocated (after decades of probably passing them there) to where the entrance to Wild Sea now is (I think - or across from the Seal Pool if not).
Did they zoo preserve them once Wild Sea was constructed? I haven't noticed them anywhere on my trips back post 2009 (though I don't think I've consciously looked for them).
Bonus points: does anyone remember when that fountain at the entrance was removed?
Admittedly I had forgotten about the fountain until I came across some photos the State Library has this week, so I'm guessing it was early in my childhood (pre 90's).

Part II
You can be sure that anything that could be considered a work of art or monument would be put into storage if not in current use. The Peter Pan statute that can be seen on the main drive was in storage for 50 or 60 years until it was resurrected some time in the 1980's.

Wow - so this is pretty crazy. I was messing around on Google Maps, Street View / See Inside at the exit of the Treetop walk - basically in an attempt to gauge how far from the old main pathway down to the treetop walk the Butterfly House was.

I zoomed in on the center of the image (just right of the tree in the foreground) to see if the Butterfly House was at all visible (it's not), and what do I see? I believe these are 3 of the poles. It looks like the middle one is the one that had a ring tailed lemur (I think) on top. It's a pretty far zoom, but I'm pretty sure it's them.

I honestly cannot believe that I very randomly came across this on Google Maps and probably answered my own question. At least as of 2014 which was when this imagery is from.

I should also mention that this service path off the old main path seen here isn't the one I was thinking of - this is actually the path that used to (in the 80's) lead from the southern part of the zoo up to the lake. The old path I was thinking of, which still exists as a service road beside the Butterfly House is further west than here, more "behind" the treetop walk (to the left of these screen shots) - so I definitely wasn't going to see the Butterfly House from here this vantage point anyway.