I've been to Lincoln Park Zoo a number of times, but don't remember the bear. When I was a kid, we most often went to Brookfield. They were about equidistant from the Southeast side.
My best memory of Lincoln Park Zoo comes from the days when I worked on the race car. We were driving back from Miami with our truck and trailer one Sunday night and saw some armadillos poking around near the road. The guy who was driving decided to stop, and one of the guys, who was a bit of a lunatic, jumped out and chased an armadillo. He caught him and put him in the truck, thinking we'd keep him in our shop as a pet. Well, when we got back to Chicago that Armadillo was very unhappy. Couldn't get him to eat. (Don't know why he didn't like cheeseburgers), and the cold was making him sluggish. So we decided to take him to Lincoln Park Zoo. After smoking a bit of weed. (The armadillo didn't like that any more than the cheeseburger.) At the zoo, we managed to find the administration building. We went into the office with the armadillo in a box and told the receptionist we wanted to donate an armadillo. Well, it seems the curator had been hoping to get an armadillo for some time. Just the day before they had tricked him with some kind of object made from an armadillo shell. They had wrapped a blanket around it and presented it to him. So, he of course assumed this was another trick and refused to come out to the reception area. So we took the armadillo out of the box. The office was quite warm and that seemed to please him. He (or she as the case may have been) began scampering around the office and the receptionist screamed. That got the curator out there. In short, he was thrilled. We lied and told him that the armadillo must have crawled into our trailer while we were racing. Since they're an endangered species, we didn't want to end up in the clink. He pointed out that armadillos are very timid and would never come near a trailer, but he wanted an armadillo bad enough that he didn't press the issue. So the armadillo moved into Lincoln Park Zoo, and we went back to our cold shop, cheeseburgers and weed. And that's my Lincoln Park Zoo story, the only one I have:-). Paul On Feb 11, 2008, at 8:25 PM, Christine Aguila wrote: > Paul: Thanks for the link below. I didn't get through all of > them, but > seeing the zoo shots made me think of something I hadn't thought of > in a > long time. Coming from the south side, I don't know if you spent a > lot of > time at Lincoln Park zoo, but at LP zoo you used to be able to get > your > photograph taken while standing next to a stuffed medium sized > bear. My > parents made this an annual ritual. Somewhere, there are BW > photographs of > me & my sister sitting or standing next to this bear. I have to > find those > photographs. Sound familiar? > Anyway, I love the circus & beach shots. > > Cheers, Christine > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <pdml@pdml.net> > Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 12:24 PM > Subject: The Cushman Photos -- watching a photographer progress > > >> I've made it through 118 pages of the Chicago pics with no end in >> sight. >> This has taken me from some of his first work in 1937 all the way >> to 1958. >> It's fascinating to see how he progressed in terms of composition and >> creative perspective. I also noticed that his camera developed a >> sticky >> shutter in 1958 or thereabouts. Seems he had it fixed fairly soon. >> It's >> also interesting that he threw very little away -- end of roll shots, >> sticky shutter shots, overexposed and underexposed shots -- >> they're all >> here. >> >> The Chicago area pics start here: http://tinyurl.com/2lsrlo >> Paul >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
