Here’s one of a military parade in 1951. By Howard Sochurek.
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Maybe this one? Seems to have a lot of old timer foreigners on it from TAS and others …
Taiwan–NACC, MAAG, USATG, and Air America Taiwan.
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Not sure if this is the same place. It’s got 維豐肉鬆 on the left and 華南銀行 on the right.
13 Bao’an St
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There’s still a decent number of them in the Sanzhi and Shimen hills. Most notable location is probably here:
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Blast from the past. Did not know that moving the zoo from Yuanshan to Muzha was such a big event. I wonder if any animals suffered heart attacks during that ordeal.
Here is a tour of the old zoo based on photos, quite interesting
And while we are at it, footage of the old Children’s Recreation Park, which was at the same site.
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Not sure about the move, but when the zoo at Muzha zoo first opened, it had a polar bear exhibit right next to the penguin exhibit. If you visit it today, there’s one very frazzled brown bear living in what obviously was supposed to be a polar bear pen. It is quite spacious, but the problem was… it’s outdoors. Unlike the penguins right next door in their freezing climate controlled heaven all year round, there was absolutely nothing to protect the bears from Taiwan’s brutal hot and humid climate. Even the brown bear there now looks like it’s barely hanging on. The two polar bears, gifted to Taipei from Manitoba Canada, died within a decade of arriving to Taiwan. Originally the zoo planned to build an indoor habitat for the bears, just like what they did for the penguins, but the budget was cut by Taipei’s city council.
Zoos are bad for (large) animals, no matter how good they are. I think a lot more attention is paid to the welfare of animals nowadays though, in Taipei Zoo.
At the end of the zoo clip is an interesting anecdote. The elephant, star of the zoo, was going to be put down towards the end of WWII, but his keeper rescued him by hiding him somewhere and after the war he lived until 1950.
The elephant you are talking about was the original elephant, マーちゃん (Little Ma), at Yuanshan. She was introduced to Yuanshan zoo back in 1926. When the American bombing of Taipei began, they wanted to put the elephant down, since there was a food shortage as well.
The most famous elephant being moved to Muzha zoo, called Linwang, was moved to Taiwan with Sun Li-ren’s army from Myanmar. After マーちゃん died in 1950, the city asked the army to donate the elephant. Later on, the city wanted to find him a mate, and imported an elephant from Thailand, but they didn’t get along.
There was an album made for the move, including a theme song for the new zoo, and a song for Linwang.
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EVA Air should play this song whenever they land in Taiwan.
I guess this belongs to old maps of Taipei or something. The video is all in Mandarin, but it goes through the changes of Taipei from Japanese era to now.
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