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Title: Oliver with his handler
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Messinger, Joe
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 197-
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption reads: "Oliver, a man-like ape who has scientists confused and may be the "missing link," walks with handler Bill Sell, right, as he makes his Southern California debut at Enchanted Village in Buena Park". The 32-acre Enchanted Village theme park was established on the premises of the defunct Japanese Village and Deer Park in Buena Park and opened on June 18, 1976. It had trained animal shows, a traditional styled Polynesian show and a few rides. The park closed in the fall of 1977.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00084287
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b022_f1_i3
CARL0002882192
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/25841
Subject: Enchanted Village (Buena Park, Calif.)
Animal trainers--California--Buena Park
Chimpanzees--California--Buena Park
Amusement parks--California--Buena Park
Buena Park (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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