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Body:	<i>Rick, Your list is fabulous - it fills in the gaps the rest of us left. Your memory is pretty darn good! When you wrote about the zoo being in the desert, I immediately wanted to post of the story of what sat on that land before the zoo. I must sound like I know everyting about everything, but I don't. It's just that when I started doing family history, I got interested in the whole Valley. My dad (the redneck)is actually the one who told me about the land where the zoo sat. He said it was a fish hatchery during the 20s and 30s. He was a boy in Phoenix then, and he often would point to a spot and tell me his relationship with that place. I remember most of what he said, but I wish I'd paid better attention. He said that when the system of dams was built, they diverted some of the canal water there and built the hatcheries. They would then haul the fish upriver to various lakes and rivers around the state. They chose that spot because of its unique geographical properties and natural water being nearby. The part of the zoo near the alligator area is where the hatcheries were. I miss the Arizona of our earlier days. We felt so modern, with our cars and Circle Ks on lots of corners and pay telephones, and now that type of lifestyle is as quaint and old-fashioned as we thought the model T era was. </i> *
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