Long Island Zoo?

[Nasus]

Anyone know anything about this? I know there was once a Massapequa Zoo but no idea if this video was from it.

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=6111

[Nasus]

Frank Buck's Jungle Camp Animal Park maybe?...........lots of monkeys he had there!

When an employee of Frank Buck's Jungle Camp Animal Park near Amityville, on New York's Long Island, accidentally left a plank across an exhibit moat, Capone the rhesus monkey led 172 of his cohorts out of the park and into the woods. Crossing a set of the Long Island Rail Road's tracks, the small monkeys chased away a set of train workers and stopped the progress of a locomotive for at least 5 minutes. Money and season passes were offered to anyone fleet enough to catch the swift simians and return them to the park.

[The Commish]

Possibly... But the end of the video doesn't look like Long Island terrain. There's a Mikimapia link that shows the Animal Park was located along Sunrise Highway, just across from the LIRR tracks.

http://wikimapia.org/6301507/Frank-B...mp-Animal-Park (ahahaha...look who added it...)


http://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worl...ungle_land.htm

[Nasus]

Possibly... But the end of the video doesn't look like Long Island terrain. There's a Mikimapia link that shows the Animal Park was located along Sunrise Highway, just across from the LIRR tracks.

http://wikimapia.org/6301507/Frank-B...mp-Animal-Park (ahahaha...look who added it...)


http://www.1939nyworldsfair.com/worl...ungle_land.htm

The end is definitely not LI. This lil note was near the video so Im assuming maybe it was leading to another story...in another place? (thanks for the links too )

Note: at the end of this item there is a silent piece about a landslide on some tracks, various shots of people standing on a bridge and looking. Various shots of trees on their side. It is unclear where this item is from.

[The Commish]

Yea, it's just kinda weird that they go to that end piece showing the RR tracks...

I really couldn't find much more, wonder what became of the whole place.

[Toyandgadgetguy]

I can tell you lots about the place. After Frank Buck's, it became the Massapequa Zoo (sometimes called the Long Island Zoo) One of the biggest attractions there was Monkey Mountain. It's the mountain you see right at the beginning of that video. It was located where the Toys R Us in Massapequa is now. The used to walk the elephants up and down Unqua Ave. When Frank Buck owned the place, he kept some of the animals that weren't on exhibit just off of Old Sunrise Highway, near where the soccer fields are now. (either adjacent to, or shared land with Buffalo Bill Cody, who kept animals there for his Wild West Show). After the zoo closed, it became a drive in movie theater. There's almost nothing left of the original zoo except for a few odd bits of cement near the Lucille Roberts.

[Toyandgadgetguy]

Possibly... But the end of the video doesn't look like Long Island terrain. There's a Mikimapia link that shows the Animal Park was located along Sunrise Highway, just across from the LIRR tracks.

http://wikimapia.org/6301507/Frank-B...mp-Animal-Park (ahahaha...look who added it...)

Yes! Quoted! That's cuz I um... know... um... stuff. Yea! Stuff. Ok, that's all I've got.