 1906 postcard from the Los Angeles Alligator Farm | |
| Location | Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 34°04′07″N118°12′07″W / 34.0685°N 118.2020°W |
| Status | Defunct |
| Opened | 1907 |
| Closed | 1984 |
| Owner | Joe Campbell |
| Theme | Animal theme park |
The Los Angeles Alligator Farm was an alligator farm and a major city tourist attraction from 1907 until 1953. It was located next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. [1]
Originally situated across from Lincoln Park, at 3627 Mission Road, [2] it moved to Buena Park, California in 1953, where it was renamed the California Alligator Farm.
The Buena Park location was a “two-acre, junglelike park” across from Knott’s Berry Farm. Circa 1974, it housed “more than a hundred species representing all five orders of reptiles, with an emphasis on crocodilians.” Alligator and snake shows were held daily in summer and weekly in the off-season. [3]
In 1951, it was reported there were 2000 alligators at the farm. [4] For the 1967 film, The Happiest Millionaire , the farm loaned Disney Studios 12 alligators that were featured in the film. [5]
The attraction was shut down in 1984 after attendance dropped below 50,000 people annually, and the animals were relocated to a private estate in Florida. [6] [7]
