The Zoo That Time Forgot

[Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] old Zoo nature trail so what's this so today we're going to the zoo nice now this Zoo there's a lot of history about this suit was opened in 1923 and closed in mysterious circumstances in the late 1930s early 1940s and has been abandoned ever since 1930s 1940s Zoo love it so let's take a look so a zoo now am I right in saying that this was a uh animal zoo an animal zoo had bear deer well that was kind of a joke because what other Zoo is there well I don't know we've been going to the cities today and the one thing about because I know we did also did the abandoned zoo in Griffith Park in LA uh-huh the trees I just just something about the trees that always kind of seemed to be similar I just I love the look of them so I believe we are supposed to be on the lookout for there's the medallions right yeah 10 of them okay and they'll show what we're in what enclosure but they're not all easy to find you have to look for them okay A little treasure hunt it is I think this is a really cool idea because I mean still make it an old trail because it was people love to walk this anyways and keep it open as a trail for people to still enjoy nature and get a glimpse into what this used to be yeah and just up here you can see all the the rock walls so that was also some of the zoo enclosures up that side which we'll look at let's go up to the top first because I believe that there's a lion enclosure up here yeah so we'll go up there later there's also something there but I don't know whether or not that's a trail but it's definitely oh actually yes it is bread oh yeah well the steps going down oh yeah and then you can see a little Trail Meandering off the side now it is snake season and there are copperheads there's also scorpions and other creepy crawlies that we don't want to get bit by yeah so stick to the trails and keep your eyes open so what's this okay there's a little LT Loop trial oh okay sorry guys down here oh I see and then it Loops up and comes back down all right this is where the Lion's meant to be so we've got to look for the lion Medallion okay this is really cute isn't it it is I like this it's uh it is starting to warm up I'm gonna have to take my jacket off here in a minute so I wonder if this was just a natural Creak back then well I must admit I wasn't expecting this no I am getting a little bit of flashbacks to like seek a hollow I think also a little bit because I'm sweating so much right now it's a bit humid yeah that's just windy Trail so keep your eye open for The Medallion yeah mind your step all right I'm getting a bit turned hang on this is the bridge I yeah I do recognize this part now okay and it goes straight up that way so this has got to be I would say that's gotta be the enclosure up here so now we gotta see if we can find The Medallion there's like little Trails leading all over them I know they just zigzag all over but it's beautiful the Moss all over the rocks and let's face it this is a great place to bring your kids and have a you know family of fun you know trying to find the medallions going through all the trails right it's a it's a little treasure hunt okay left or right uh left and I am absolutely determined to find this medallion well we don't even know whether or not we're in the right place to find The Medallion and this is meant to be the Lions according to that map but he did say that that was old and uh a new map is on order yeah but I would think if it's a mountain lion enclosure of these rocks seems to simulate more of a mountain lion environment and if they use the natural lay of the land this would be perfect you showed an app in Africa oh not a mountain lion you know one with a big Mane yeah okay well then we're on the wrong continent oh see because I was thinking this they've got little shelves and perches but I've had enough I gotta take my jacket off then it's time to get serious about this Stephen [Music] Stephen let's go there's lots and more to see come on no I'm not leaving until I find it [Music] gotta be here I know it's here why are you just sitting there we're not finding it we're in the wrong place so we'll try this Trail now listen I don't know what happened back there but I do know this I think that'll be the last time I can't can't keep sorry I can't take that so seriously so what's up here I have no idea of big steps oh it goes right left or straight straight up uh more of these walk around up to it because there's a sign up there it's another that looks like an enclosure that is an inclusion okay up uh up first yeah all right well there's an enclosure with a little hole Yeah but no Medallion no and it's not gonna bother me it's fine I'm sure I wonder what this is because it's kind of I mean you've got poles poles yeah and there was fencing so this wall here I think that used to be another oh yeah there's some steps you can just barely make out so that would have been the sidewalk there originally so this would have been an enclosure that would have been an enclosure and you would have walked along there yeah huh all right but I want to get up to those top ones for sure so I guess we'll carry on see if it leads up there yeah I'm just gonna check up here what are you doing [Music] oh oh no we've got to go this way foreign we've got a better view of this as well okay so what's up here this is oh oh all right so steps going off to the right is kind of overload here I've just seen something okay so we were over there looking for the where those two people are climbing on the Rocks just below that there's two caves oh really uh-huh here's the enclosures with some of the fencing still left tiny enclosures aren't they I wonder what they were for I don't know [Music] somebody's built a fire pit up here [Music] yeah they're just ah found a medallion okay this was cat a lion mountain lion so this was the mountain this is the mountain lion enclosure so we were just climbing all over rocks for nothing well Shame about the coffee graffiti it is see so for a mountain lion not very big is it no because this would have been that's the one fenced up part this is the other side here so that's one thing I don't like about zoos I'm not a great Zoo person I'd prefer wildlife parks as opposed to zoos because I find that the enclosures are just so small yeah that's just my personal opinion right and don't get me wrong I think Sam zoos are fantastic especially when they do um you know like Rehabilitation or breed and then put them back in the wild yeah so if there was a medallion in there there might be a medallion in this one I wonder if I wonder if this was the all the mountain lion enclosure well why would it be separated [Music] well that's this is definitely the same enclosure because uh their home goes from side to side okay see a medallion anywhere though no there wasn't one in there and then this one you can kind of that doesn't really go back anywhere it just is it is a big area but let's see look wild flowers they'll bite you that's what you come to the zoo to see I'm gonna have a little look in here so pretty amazing so this was built in 1923 yeah and again they used the natural landscape and built around it which is there might be a medallion I know how excited you'll get I'm Italian like I said I don't uh I could just imagine I mean I'm enjoying this now but like as a kid oh you just stepped in the wild flower oh my did you hear them scream at me yeah I did terrifying oh [Applause] I don't know whether or not there's a medallion in there should I go in just mine that no spiders jump on my head yeah I got well I got a better view from up here I don't see anything in there at all like I said this must be around the same kind of enclosures would be I'm a dying in each you know how zoos they separate everything by animal see now if this was also mountain lion and this was still part of the other cage then this is actually a pretty decent size enclosure cool spot to hang out but though this looks like a a trail path because they're steps or if this is for the behind the scenes zookeepers when they come to feed them and and whatnot yeah because we're back out [Music] [Music] in all stairs so I think there's going to be medallions up here well there was ten one has been stolen so there's nine left we found two will they bother you not to find all of them I'd like to find all of them I'm just intrigued he wouldn't bother me at all [Music] [Applause] so this is not a cage no this is a house and it looks like it's caught fire well it has caught fire oh wow kitchen sink yes simply hot cold water hmm drain I like the tile work fireplace it's a nice size another doorway here yeah oh what a shame that sir caught fire I wonder if that was arson now old school insulator in there no trip would be complete without a trip to the low well there's a shower in there how that's pretty neat it looks like there's several more so maybe one of the zookeepers or the owner lived here could be there's another one up there [Music] and there's another one over there as well so two more three more that I can see oh wow it's like exploring Little Ghost Town yeah it's another three four there's one back there too a little shed these are these ones are in good shape here it's very cool in here oh very nice this is really cute so this must have been um workers cabins yeah that's what I would think again nice fireplace little kitchen Diddy but I mean what more do you need it's bigger than the one we've got yeah and you see the lead paint oh yeah so these would have been abandoned then in the 40s I would imagine after the the zoo is abandoned and there was back here it's got to be no trip yeah so closet shower and you guessed it no trip would be complete and it's still intact that's nice to see look at this is uh all concrete cement oh wow that's really cool yeah so go to the next one then yeah now I wasn't expecting this no animal feeds um possibly because there's not much in there except for the metal roof it's got the can is kind of made like a zebra yeah camouflage but again this is a bigger one and a nice front porch here so again I mean the roof is nice and intact pretty much except for back there and then again front room bedroom bedroom bedroom this will be the front room of the fireplaces little closet water closet here pretty much identical to the other this is an ensuite yeah nice big windows very cool and a tiny little kitchen with a back door is there a medallion in there [Music] is that part of a piano what it uh yeah singer piano oh it is yeah from Chicago it's cool virtually identical I guess kitchen one room smaller and a toilet so this would be difficult to that first one yeah well this would be bedroom come living room yeah yep hot water heater back there a hot water heater water heater and for all those car people out there I know what this one is yeah it's a Ford it's got to be I believe I believe you're correct on that one I'm sure I'll be told otherwise in the comments I don't want to go too far back because of it's overgrown this side and I don't want to yeah get caught by a snake there are very that's very tall grass over here too so I won't go and look at this Old Wagon I wonder if they did oh no I was going to say I wonder if they did wagon rides around the zoo but it's too uneven and there's too many steps yeah so it's not very good for strollers push chairs as we call them but how cool and uh just a couple more houses this has got to be part of the zoo still yeah well this looks like the last one that we can explore look at this old sofa sofa or beta get up and then the uh barbecue outside and oh it's nice in here oh look at the tiles I yeah I like these kind of tiles because the thing about these is they keep the cool in the summer which it's nice and cool in here but then also they keep in the heat for the winter time that's an old single sewing machine yeah singer look at that it says office okay so I wonder if this was the office to the park then like the main head office I don't know but there used to be some sort of breakfast bar here fireplace kitchen but it's got bedroom furniture in here closet and a loo no well this door yes does that go through here's the here's where the loo was okay they're the Wall's gone yeah there was a wall here yeah I don't know what that is because there's your shower [Music] hot water heater and then I guess this room maybe this was the office I don't know it's because you wouldn't have yeah that mess that's the front door I think that was the office and then this was closed off bedroom kitchen Lou hmm strange so we found it something else yep it's a little pool so obviously this is gonna be for fish I mean there wouldn't be anything else that would possibly well because it's so tiny yeah well I was uh stairs so ah flamingos that's the Flamingo pool so I don't like zoos because the enclosures are too small that'll make a lick of sense huh well three so stairs going down there I would say that goes back to the carpool yeah I think that grows because that's what we can see Tonto right there okay so shall we continue we'll go on the word cougar Trail I like cougars [Laughter] okay so here's cougar Rock scene on top 1968. all right well that's kind of not guess what guess who found another Medallion and you didn't I found the flamingo one so this is it yeah [Music] no cage though no what goes through here thank you a steep drop off and a road oh and there's the dam so here we are the last piece so this is the largest swimming pool it's the largest or it was the largest cement swimming pool in the world so they say but definitely in America I don't know how big it was or is um and even though the Zoo closed in the 40s the swimming pool was still open right through until the 1970s yeah and then it closed down and now it's stocked with fish so the kids can come here and go fishing right now why did the zoo actually close I don't think we said that mysterious circumstances so one of the Bears was poisoned oh um if you dear died mysteriously as well boy it's windy on the water get seasick so that wraps it up for the zoo and the swimming pool nice and the Bonus Goes Down cool so what's next on the the old Horizon campsite dinner seeing as we've been here for six hours yeah and yeah that's it all right [Music] there you go that does it for the abandoned Zoo and that was a long day and the Ghost Town yeah it wasn't a bonus it wasn't really a ghost town um there is actually an abandoned um golf course near here so we are wondering whether or not those buildings were part of the golf course but we don't know yeah we have no idea and a lot of this place is still overgrown in some spots so the medallions were very hard to spot I think we came across four four out of there is ten the guy told me that one's already been stolen um let me think a few more have yeah we found remnants of where we think they should have been yeah but uh but it was a fun day and definitely worth coming here definitely if you're in Texas and you're in this area then you definitely need to come especially if you've got kids great day for exploring oh yeah just good to be outside in nature walking around you're walking through history again and the way they've done it with the trail system is just brilliant love it so on that note get out there go and explore put another pin in the atlas and we will see you on our next adventure bye [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]