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Showing posts with label Lincoln Park Zoo. Show all posts

Monday, March 22, 2021

Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh my!



Dating back to 1868, Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo is one of a handful of the oldest in the United States.  Here's a trio of postcards dating from 1910 to 1923.

"I fed it -- Not."

The sender saw two plays while in Chicago.  The first was "Sally", which opened at the Colonial Theater the previous month.  That theater was torn down in 1924.  Here's a great photograph.
From the 1929 film adaptation.
Chet Baker's 1956 version:
Aretha Franklin recorded the song in 1962.
Tony Bennett sang it in 2015


The second play, a mystery, was "The Cat and the Canary".  I wasn't able to find a reference to it's Chicago run.  This is from it's 1922 Broadway production:



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