Sneaking Around The Old L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park

0:05 the Los Angeles Zoo that's the new urlan

0:05 there's an older one about a mile or two

0:08 up the road that's where we're going

0:11 today and as you can see by the drops on

0:14 my rental car windshield it's raining in

0:17 Southern California

0:19 welcome everyone Adam and the whoo here

0:21 I have been to this location before but

0:24 in the world of YouTube it was quite a

0:26 while ago March I believe it was March

0:29 2013 there's a coyote over here there's

0:34 a coyote or is that a fox not on the

0:39 leash and not not tame staring at me in

0:43 case turning away that's safe to be

0:47 wandering around out here

0:50 maybe he's guarding the old relics you

0:54 see I'm gonna go yeah just keep keep

1:01 walking that way just just keep going

1:04 that way buddy now if memory serves me

1:06 correctly five years ago it was a lot

1:08 more difficult to find the spot since

1:11 then they have put signage at the bottom

1:13 of the hill directing everyone up to the

1:15 former Zoo now a picnic area and it's no

1:19 longer in use it's just sitting here

1:21 tagged up graffiti'd that's pretty much

1:25 a hiking area here in Griffith Park the

1:28 footage I uploaded half a decade ago was

1:30 not the greatest I'll be the first to

1:32 admit it

1:33 I felt I needed to come out here on this

1:35 overcast day and just show a little bit

1:39 more detail of what now exists according

1:43 to the sign as best I can tell even

1:45 though the spray paint is covering the

1:47 number it was active until 1965 until it

1:51 moved just down the road to the new

1:52 location since its closure it's been

1:54 used for a lot of TV commercials shows

1:58 and even feature films in fact the scene

2:02 from anchorman took place right there

2:07 why not use it if it's sitting here

2:09 right it's a pretty cool backdrop for

2:12 any episode some of the passageways and

2:15 staircases are locked with a gate wait

2:18 you know now that I say that I could be

2:22 wrong

2:23 oh yeah you know it's locked it's

2:27 interesting to think that 50 years ago I

2:30 gotta watch my stuff going down here 50

2:31 years ago animals roamed around now

2:36 where people share a cheese sandwich

2:38 couldn't do that back to Dennis you

2:41 probably get mauled by a bear could it

2:48 be oh yeah

3:02 someone really wanted to use those

3:02 stairs back here you see a yellow truck

3:05 that's a park ranger patrolling this

3:09 whole area someone was celebrating their

3:12 New Year's Eve out here pretty good

3:18 place to celebrate the holiday and kick

3:20 off 2018 I suppose here's another open

3:25 doorway look how I might be just a

3:28 little to get through there I made it

3:33 not very far go back the closer look at

3:42 this trapdoor gate slams down which

3:46 would startle me if that happened being

3:48 held by this metal rope that goes up to

3:51 that pulley and through a pipe that goes

3:57 the perimeter of the cage all the way to

4:00 the top and then an attendant at that

4:04 door open and closed it there are some

4:07 smaller sections that are blocked off by

4:10 this fence a few people have scaled over

4:14 the top of it to get in there even

4:18 almost like a skateboard ramp someone

4:22 has tossed over every year this property

4:24 is used for a haunted hayride which I

4:26 have not done yet but next Halloween I'm

4:29 gonna check it out you can see where

4:31 they patched up some of the holes to

4:35 keep looky-loos from sneaking around

4:37 were they they shouldn't be sliding down

4:39 that incline is a wooden piece of a

4:41 building that once sat right here was

4:45 falling apart and they bulldoze that

4:47 most likely for safety reasons there is

4:50 a great view from up here what you're

4:53 looking at straight ahead I believe is

4:55 Glendale and off to the left if all that

4:59 foliage wasn't blocking it right around

5:01 that way would be heading towards

5:04 Burbank any rain in Los Angeles as

5:06 always welcome as you can see fires are

5:10 always a problem I'm not certain if

5:12 these were from the one

5:14 a month or two ago out here but there is

5:17 plenty of charred remains right above

5:20 this other cage when in Rome or Wynn at

5:26 an old Zoo

5:27 - is the zoo Ian's and go and say I

5:34 screwed that part of the old fencing

5:36 that used to keep the animals in and

5:38 people out is a very heavily trodden and

5:42 trafficked area a lot of people come up

5:46 here just wander around along the ledge

5:49 looking down on where I started and Sam

5:54 has documented his love for Olivia for

5:57 posterity on the side of the wall as

6:00 well as this cactus droopy cactus this

6:07 is the view from the opposite end

6:08 looking down that creepy staircase

6:16 pretty cool out here very peaceful very

6:16 peaceful today a monster has been drawn

6:19 on that piece of concrete right there

6:22 but don't let it scare you don't cry

6:24 you must remember boys don't cry

6:30 that's a cure song right I have my hand

6:35 inside a hole that's the only thing that

6:37 would possibly fit in this hole except a

6:41 small child who else could get through

6:44 there not me not me if you ever come out

6:50 here do not rely on the posted signs for

6:52 info they're very difficult to read yet

6:56 to do your own research either on the

6:58 internet or old newspaper articles

7:03 pretty fascinating stuff just to think

7:06 that over half a century ago tourists

7:10 were walking right through here looking

7:11 looking at the animals most everything

7:13 is locked up safe and sound but

7:17 occasionally you'll stumble on a door a

7:20 gate that is

7:22 up it fooled me it fooled me there's no

7:26 lock to have it welded shut

7:28 wham wam wam where no living creatures

7:33 were in captivation down inside there as

7:36 much as it looks like that would have

7:38 been the case this is a drainage area

7:41 stated CET a 7/8 either place there as a

7:46 significance of a runoff for flooding or

7:51 maybe somebody on their own accord just

7:53 wrote that there in tile and rock while

7:57 there's no water currently I bet when

8:00 there's a torrential downpour this is

8:02 quite an active space and pretty

8:04 impressive as the water rushes down

8:07 these little corridors what's that up

8:10 there hidden Mickey it looks to have

8:15 been on a couple different levels you

8:16 see some cages there behind the brush

8:19 but down here are some former

8:23 foundations some concrete wood metal

8:26 poles this tree has been removed little

8:33 relics and remnants below the remaining

8:37 cages what's that up there it almost

8:41 looks like a restroom I think it is I

8:44 think it's just an access way for the

8:46 employees to do their feeding that the

8:49 employees are feeding the animals are

8:51 being fed that's what I meant or maybe

8:53 that was that could have been the break

8:55 room mate yes I like this it reminds me

8:59 of the mountain from the Paramount logo

9:02 or maybe even the beginning of Raiders

9:05 of the Lost Ark Indiana Jones I mean

9:09 it's not it just looks like it and all

9:12 the way at the tippy tops someone's

9:13 standing up there it's netted off so

9:16 they don't fall I guess you can hike up

9:18 there I need to do that in the future I

9:21 need to I need to go up there someday in

9:24 the future attached to one of these

9:25 trees is a fly bag and at first I

9:29 thought there was a large congregation

9:30 size-wise of these creatures

9:34 but that's just a drawing that's not a

9:35 real fly upon closer look the flies that

9:39 are deceased are in the bottom of there

9:41 years ago I used to work at a feed store

9:43 and would go out and deliveries to

9:46 ranches and farms to deliver hay and

9:49 feed to horses and cows and in the barns

9:53 there would be dozens of those fly bags

9:56 this is in Florida where there was lots

9:58 of flies lots of mosquitoes lots of bugs

10:00 lots of rain lots of insects and those

10:04 fly bags would have no joke a hundred

10:07 thousand flies in each bag smelling a an

10:12 odor that you do not someone else's over

10:16 there and I'm not alone someone's

10:19 yelling over in the and the cages for

10:22 those that live locally finding this

10:23 place in this day and age is very simple

10:25 but I'll show you the path if you decide

10:27 to visit you want to look for this

10:30 wooden staircase you're gonna start in

10:33 the parking lot down there on the

10:34 weekends this area is very busy and

10:36 difficult to find a parking spot my

10:39 recommendation if you're gonna come up

10:40 to any of the public areas of Griffith

10:43 Park do it on a weekday and just keep a

10:45 keen eye out for the side placed against

10:49 the pole park anywhere up that hill look

10:52 for the wooden staircase and you're

10:54 there it's been nice today seeing a

10:56 little condensation in the air a little

10:57 shower

10:59 from the heavens being a Floridian for

11:02 over 25 years

11:03 got used to rained but out here in

11:06 Southern California it's a rarity in

11:08 fact I've been traveling so much this

11:10 might be the first time I've seen it

11:11 since I lived here I've been gone more

11:14 than half the time I've resided in Los

11:18 Angeles it's a nice change that's gonna

11:22 do it for today's overcast

11:24 adventure that's what we'll call it

11:26 returning to the kinda-sorta not really

11:31 abandoned I used to think it was

11:33 abandoned but not when I even gonna use

11:34 that in the title oh well there will be

11:36 no abandonment in the title because

11:38 everyone can get there everyone can see

11:40 it it's not really it's used thank you

11:43 for watching I'm gonna start doing a

11:45 little bit more Los Angeles base stuff

11:48 some touristy stuff some off-the-grid

11:51 some stuff up in the nether regions and

11:54 on the outskirts that's why I took

11:57 advantage of this rental car my mom

11:58 visited last week she flew back home

12:01 night before last and I am taking the

12:04 rental car into my own hands

12:07 even though holding be very heavy to

12:09 hold this thank you for watching I am

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Sneaking Around The Old L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park

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