The old California Alligator Farm is pictured in 1955. It started as the Los Angeles Alligator Farm, next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in Lincoln Heights, and was a wildly popular tourist attraction from 1907 to 1953. Then it moved to Buena Park and was renamed the California Alligator Farm and also featured snakes, tortoises, and other reptiles. The attraction remained there until 1984, at which point it closed and the critters were shipped to a private estate in Florida. Today, the Beach Boulevard location is a Claim Jumper restaurant and an adjacent open field (pictured). (Photographs courtesy of Chris Epting.)
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