Reader’s grandfather was one of the workers who helped transform one of the sites into the San Antonio Zoo.
)” and the “section of the old quarry which the city of San Antonio now uses to house the cages of its zoological exhibit.”The idea to make San Antonio “the South’s first cageless zoo” came from a group of residents who formed the Zoological Society of San Antonio, a support group whose members would “contribute toward the purchase of new species,” said the Express, Dec. 30, 1928, and would continue to “take an active interest in growth.
The result was “more humane treatment for animals” with “plenty of room for exercise natural sunlight.” A postcard mailed in 1932 shows Monkey Island, an exhibit carved out of a former quarry adjacent to the San Antonio Zoo to house multiple species in a “barless” setting.A bear pit, in three sections for different species, was built in a section of the old rock quarry adjoining the zoo. Nearby was Monkey Island, “where hundreds of monkeys of all varieties cavort unhampered by cages,” said the San Antonio Light, Nov. 3, 1929.
A reader’s great-grandfather, Refugio Lopez, who worked in the quarry in Brackenridge Park, is fourth from right, standing directly in front of the two men standing at the door of the “automatic shovel.” During the late 1920s, Lopez helped build the San Antonio Zoo’s innovative “barless” animal exhibits out of rock from the former quarry.
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