Singer-composer-hunter Stuart Hamblen, center, gets check and panther pelt
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Brich, George
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Jungleland was a zoo and amusement park, well known for providing wild animals for Hollywood movies and television. It was originally founded as Goebel's Lion Farm in Thousand Oaks in 1926, the name changed to World Jungle Compound in 1929 and to Jungleland in 1955. It closed in 1969. Photograph caption dated March 2, 1963 reads "Heinze Ruhe, left, presents $1,500 that fellow-hunter Ronnie Page will share with Hamblen." The animal had escaped the day before from Jungleland, an amusement park and zoo in Thousand Oaks, California. Ruhe, the co-owner of Jungleland offered a reward for the cat, $1,000, dead or alive.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
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