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  1. This is Charles and Winnie, and we live all of twenty minutes from the park. Actually, I bike over there about once a week just for exercise. We have been going to the park starting 10 days after the safari opened in 1974 and watched it morph into different venues some good and some bad. The past few years have been the best to date and we are now into taking a third generation to see the animals and go on the "RIDES"! If I can figure out how to post a picture, we have an original DANGER warning tag that was handed out when the safari first opened. It really had a great deal of weight behind it since the bears, tigers, lions and baboons roamed free and came right up to the car. We also take credit for suggesting that the safari begin private tours after I wrote to them one winter and asked if my wife could go over and feed a giraffe. A few weeks later we received a call from the fellow who created the safari and he invited us over for a private tour. We suggested that they try running private tours and the next season they initiated the program. There is much more to this story but this is the most important aspect of it. Charles and Winnie B
  2. My wife and I were going through a folder of papers, artwork, etc. dating back to the 1970s when our daughter was an infant. In the papers we found this slip noting the date of July 17, 1974 and that it was the first time we had taken her to the Safari (age 15 months) You did indeed need to keep the windows closed because the bears, lions, tigers and baboons roamed free! It is a bit ironic that we just found this because in a few weeks this chapter in the Safari's history will be closed forever.

    © Charles Burke

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