Los Angeles Alligator Farm

Los Angeles Alligator Farm
	1906 postcard from the Los Angeles Alligator Farm
Location	Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Coordinates	34°04′07″N 118°12′07″W / 34.0685°N 118.2020°WCoordinates: 34°04′07″N 118°12′07″W / 34.0685°N 118.2020°W
Status	Closed
Opened	1907
Closed	1984
Owner	Joe Campbell
Theme	Animal theme park

The Los Angeles Alligator Farm, located next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, was an alligator farm and a major city tourist attraction from 1907 until 1953.^[1]

Originally situated across from Lincoln Park, at 3627 Mission Road, it moved to Buena Park, California in 1953, where it was renamed the California Alligator Farm.

The attraction was shut down in 1984 after attendance dropped below 50,000 people annually, and the animals were relocated to a private estate in Florida.^[2]^[3]^[4]

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[1] The most frightening zoo in American history, Scenes from the Los Angeles Alligator Farm, by Wolfgang Wild

[2] OC Gazette Archived 2014-04-05 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Los Angeles Times

[4] USC Digital Library

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