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  2. Griffith Park Zoo - Wikipedia

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    The first zoo in Los Angeles was the Eastlake Zoo in East Los Angeles, which opened in 1885. [2]: 37 The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with a grand total of 15 animals. The new zoo was built on the site of Griffith J. Griffith's defunct ostrich farm.

  3. Los Angeles Zoo - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Zoo has been successful in its breeding program of the rare California condor, helping to grow the number of condors in the world from a low of 22 in the 1980s to over 430 today. [30] It is one of the few zoos worldwide to have the mountain tapir , and is the only zoo outside of Peru and Brazil to house the red uakari .

  4. Los Angeles General Services Police - Wikipedia

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    A peace officer component was created in the late 1980s and reorganized in 2003 when Los Angeles City Council members Wendy Greuel and Jack Weiss proposed to create the Office of Public Safety by merging the many city security services (General Services Police, Library Security, City Park Rangers, Convention Center Security, and Los Angeles Zoo ...

  5. In one of L.A.'s largest cash heists, burglars steal as much ...

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    In one of the largest cash heists in Los Angeles history, thieves made off with as much as $30 million in an Easter Sunday burglary at a San Fernando Valley money storage facility, an L.A. police ...

  6. Tens of millions stolen from money storage facility in one of ...

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    On Sept. 12, 1997, $18.9 million was stolen from the former site of the Dunbar Armored facility on Mateo Street in Los Angeles. The robbers were eventually caught, the Los Angeles Times reported ...

  7. Selig Zoo - Wikipedia

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    The Selig Zoo in Los Angeles, California was an early 20th century animal collection managed by Col. W.N. Selig for use in Selig Polyscope Company films and as a tourist attraction. Over the years the zoo was also known as the Luna Park Zoo, California Zoological Gardens, Zoopark, and, eventually, Lincoln Amusement Park. After Westerns, "animal ...

  8. The Santa Ana Zoo has a monkey problem: Not enough of them - AOL

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    The zoo’s $3.7-million annual budget is dwarfed by the Los Angeles Zoo's, at $22 million, and the San Diego Zoo's, at $283 million. Many of the monkeys are housed in cages little different from ...

  9. Dunbar Armored robbery - Wikipedia

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    They enlisted the help of David Matsumoto, a Los Angeles immigration attorney, paying him and his office manager Joaquin Bin $1 million each for their assistance. Matsumoto structured the transactions via buying property and cars, investing in companies, and writing checks and W-2 tax forms for the robbers to give the impression they were ...