tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post7314104042746735438..comments2024-03-10T18:57:26.378-06:00Comments on The Blog O' Cheese: Hogle Zoo was and is one strange place!Cheeseboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02358419997798632644noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post-79224316378619272012009-01-09T18:33:00.000-07:002009-01-09T18:33:00.000-07:00Esther - Okay, I remember the cow/hair incident no...Esther - Okay, I remember the cow/hair incident now. Good ridance! Yes, the elephant rides were real.<BR/><BR/>Tim - I remember you working there. I can never eat food at that place because of the smell.<BR/><BR/>Michelle - You have an amazing recolection of the hippo exhibit. I am sorry you never got the wax animal.<BR/><BR/>Tracy - Thank you for the proof that elephants really used to give rides at the zoo - I knew it! Amazing how well they treated the animals back then. I don't even think that the keepers are allowed in the elephant pen anymore.<BR/><BR/>Tammy, Your parents seem like the type to buy crap like the wax things - they are sometimes buying Lincoln and Calder crap from those quarter vending machine slots when we tell them no.Cheeseboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02358419997798632644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post-12733860214970802712009-01-09T16:36:00.000-07:002009-01-09T16:36:00.000-07:00Abe maybe you're thinking of the circus for the el...Abe maybe you're thinking of the circus for the elephant ride. Or I do remember a metal elephant slide. Maybe you went down it but thought you were riding the elephant?<BR/><BR/>I loved those wax animals too! But I think in my day they only cost $0.50 because I remember putting the quarters in. <BR/><BR/>My favorite thing at the zoo was the little monkeys that were in an outdoor area and I believe it's gone now :(Tammyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11223586774137837784noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post-12330079568759883812009-01-09T11:02:00.000-07:002009-01-09T11:02:00.000-07:00My parents have a photo of me riding an elephant a...My parents have a photo of me riding an elephant at the zoo. I have no recollection of it, but apparently it happened. Also, as a junior in high school, my biology class went there on a field trip. Somehow the group I was in got left there by the bus. We were left to fend for ourselves and were forced to take a long UTA bus journey (which included switching buses) to make it back to Murray High because none of our moms were home to come pick us up.Tracihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06515343686044678553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post-70477079287431035272009-01-09T10:40:00.000-07:002009-01-09T10:40:00.000-07:00My sister rode a camel at Saltair. I had my finger...My sister rode a camel at Saltair. I had my fingers chomped by a goat at wheeler farm. I fed pellets to ducks at Gardener Village. But I never got that wax animal I longed for from Hogle Zoo. <BR/><BR/>What a deprived childhood I had.Babe in Boyslandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023498697165841642noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post-55689892515610722882009-01-08T23:42:00.000-07:002009-01-08T23:42:00.000-07:00Hogle Zoo was my first real job. You should walk ...Hogle Zoo was my first real job. You should walk around that place after hours. THAT'S strange. I could tell you stories. But mostly I could make you a mean Churro.<BR/><BR/>Cousin Larrybrandi (and tim)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13599241108975382864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5599909894024508521.post-32058620958139821092009-01-08T23:35:00.000-07:002009-01-08T23:35:00.000-07:00Abe, it was at Wheeler Farm that a COW tried to ea...Abe, it was at Wheeler Farm that a COW tried to eat my hair. But I got bit by a french hen at the zoo (I think it was the zoo). I remember somewhere gave elephant rides. Maybe the zoo or Liberty park (for some reason that feels familiar, but makes no sense. Why would the park have an elephant?) But I do remember riding an elephant with you and Liz and Jeff Abbott.Estherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16235729110199882484noreply@blogger.com