Prospect Park Zoo "Menegerie" 1890-1988 Lost History

I recently took my Son to the Prospect park "Zoo" and was showing him where the Elephants once sprayed me with water as a child on a visit there with my father. All of a sudden I look up and a staff worker was looking at me laughing and said "That's some story, You have some imagination".....I said seriously to him "What are you talking about"? He went on to say that he had been working there in 1993 and that there were never any "Elephants". Mind you this clown didn't even have a Brooklyn accent. I told this idiot that My family had been in Brooklyn since 1890 and I went on to describe the whole Zoo as he stood there in disbelief. Other workers joined in listening to my story shaking their heads. NOT A SINGLE ONE OF THEM WERE FROM BROOKLYN!!! Finally a staff worker showed up with an old dusty book and said that I was "RIGHT"!!! they were amazed at the pictures in the book and apologized to me. I went on to tell them that I used to play in a Polar bear cage and that a child was eaten by the bear in 1984. Once again a worker went to some archive room and found the story. They all thanked me and was all a buzz talking about it as I walked away with my Son.

Brooklyn is dead because No one from here lives here anymore, any sign of what was is gone. It has become a "Chic: haven for homosexual Bohemeiens from around the country who like the coffee or something I guess, but in any case at least some of them no what was. I guess that's the case with all lost Empires. Maybe one day some remains from the park will rise from the dust after a storm and some futuristic people will discover that there was in fact once a zoo there and not a hospital.....R.I.P. Brooklyn. Google+ Facebook Yahoo