Los Angeles Alligator Farm
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The Los Angeles Alligator Farm was an alligator farm and a major city tourist attraction from 1907 until 1953. It was located next door to the Los Angeles Ostrich Farm in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
History
Originally situated across from Lincoln Park, at 3627 Mission Road,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it moved to Buena Park, California in 1953, where it was renamed the California Alligator Farm.
The Buena Park location was a “two-acre, junglelike park” across from Knott’s Berry Farm. Circa 1974, it housed “more than a hundred species representing all five orders of reptiles, with an emphasis on crocodilians.” Alligator and snake shows were held daily in summer and weekly in the off-season.<ref name="sunset"> Template:Cite book </ref>
In 1951, it was reported there were 2000 alligators at the farm.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> For the 1967 film, The Happiest Millionaire, the farm loaned Disney Studios 12 alligators that were featured in the film.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
The attraction was shut down in 1984 after attendance dropped below 50,000 people annually, and the animals were relocated to a private estate in Florida.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>