Akron Zoo plans to spread its wings on leased land

How 'bout plowing the entire Wild West Side of CrAkron for it?

On second thought, no. All the degenerate vermin would scatter and further infect what's left of the city.

What was the City thinking for even keeping the zoo at its current location. They should have moved to a safer area where they would most likely have more business.

The more property they buy, the more houses will be condemned. That was not always an unsafe area. Can you imagine the cost to "move" the zoo?

I have family members that frequent with their children daily. They have never witnessed anything dangerous or inappropriate in all the years visiting.

I have a family member who has worked there for years and she too has never had any problems.

Fought the Fight B4 wrote:

The more property they buy, the more houses will be condemned. That was not always an unsafe area. Can you imagine the cost to "move" the zoo?
I have family members that frequent with their children daily. They have never witnessed anything dangerous or inappropriate in all the years visiting.
I have a family member who has worked there for years and she too has never had any problems.

Yeah it was a great area when my dad, born in 1915, was a kid. That part of town has been a dump my whole life. Why they weren't smart enough to move it years ago is criminal.

Ronald Reagan wrote:

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Yeah it was a great area when my dad, born in 1915, was a kid. That part of town has been a dump my whole life. Why they weren't smart enough to move it years ago is criminal.

Cheap property. Look at the Cleveland Zoo, it isn't exactly in prime real estate either. Then again, I'm not sure I would want the zoo and some of those smells in my neighborhood.

Fought the Fight B4 wrote:

<quoted text>Cheap property. Look at the Cleveland Zoo, it isn't exactly in prime real estate either. Then again, I'm not sure I would want the zoo and some of those smells in my neighborhood.

Good point but I would think on the edge of the park in the valley would be a better place. I seem to remember reading about animals coming up missing at the zoo and the story inferred or said people were eating them.

Ronald Reagan wrote:

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Good point but I would think on the edge of the park in the valley would be a better place. I seem to remember reading about animals coming up missing at the zoo and the story inferred or said people were eating them.

I never heard that one. Sounds like another fractured fairy tale.

Fought the Fight B4 wrote:

<quoted text>I never heard that one. Sounds like another fractured fairy tale.

I realize the source is questionable today but I know I read it in the Leakin, back when it was the Beacon. ;)

Back in the day, I pretty sure it was the late 70's the ghetto kids thought it would be fun go hunting and shot & killed a lot of the cages animals. Real sporting of them wasnt it?

The perception of Perkins Woods changed forever the day back in the mid 1960s when a hoodrat whose name escapes me (and does not deserve mention) executed an elderly couple walking through the park. Made them get on their knees and pray before he shot each of them point-blank in the head. Anybody else remember that? Then came the animal shootings that Woorking Poor mentioned. Not as bad as what has occurred from Memphis Avenue next to the Cleve Zoo.

And Fought the Fight B4 is right on. The more they plow in that vicinity the better for the zoo and its visitors. I got so sick of having my kids and grandkids having to see and hear that porch trash along Rhodes Avenue for years & years.

IMO the economically-feasible opportunity to move the zoo has long passed. Some prime JEDD land in Springfield (Pickle Road) or Coventry (Logan Field) would've been a nice relocation alternative 20 or 30 years ago.

Purging the existing periphery now appears the practical thing.

Howard Beale Jr wrote:

The perception of Perkins Woods changed forever the day back in the mid 1960s when a hoodrat whose name escapes me (and does not deserve mention) executed an elderly couple walking through the park. Made them get on their knees and pray before he shot each of them point-blank in the head. Anybody else remember that? Then came the animal shootings that Woorking Poor mentioned. Not as bad as what has occurred from Memphis Avenue next to the Cleve Zoo.
And Fought the Fight B4 is right on. The more they plow in that vicinity the better for the zoo and its visitors. I got so sick of having my kids and grandkids having to see and hear that porch trash along Rhodes Avenue for years & years.
IMO the economically-feasible opportunity to move the zoo has long passed. Some prime JEDD land in Springfield (Pickle Road) or Coventry (Logan Field) would've been a nice relocation alternative 20 or 30 years ago.
Purging the existing periphery now appears the practical thing.

I'm just glad the zoo is not in your neighborhood. It would be awkward trying to explain to my kids as we drove by why that man had a cross burning in his front yard.

Norm Deplume wrote:

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I'm just glad the zoo is not in your neighborhood. It would be awkward trying to explain to my kids as we drove by why that man had a cross burning in his front yard.

How did you explain to your kids the trips to the park. How did you explain to your kids the people who your husband spends the night with when he is on a business trip?

Fought the Fight B4 wrote:

<quoted text>I never heard that one. Sounds like another fractured fairy tale.

Just a few months ago a turtle came up missing.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_ne...

Zuppa?

Howard Beale Jr wrote:

The perception of Perkins Woods changed forever the day back in the mid 1960s when a hoodrat whose name escapes me (and does not deserve mention) executed an elderly couple walking through the park. Made them get on their knees and pray before he shot each of them point-blank in the head. Anybody else remember that? Then came the animal shootings that Woorking Poor mentioned. Not as bad as what has occurred from Memphis Avenue next to the Cleve Zoo.
And Fought the Fight B4 is right on. The more they plow in that vicinity the better for the zoo and its visitors. I got so sick of having my kids and grandkids having to see and hear that porch trash along Rhodes Avenue for years & years.
IMO the economically-feasible opportunity to move the zoo has long passed. Some prime JEDD land in Springfield (Pickle Road) or Coventry (Logan Field) would've been a nice relocation alternative 20 or 30 years ago.
Purging the existing periphery now appears the practical thing.

As I said, in all the years my family has frequented there, and my family member that works there, none of them have ever heard or seen anything in that neighborhood that would stop them from going. Granted, it can be a rough neighborhood, similar to South Akron, but the zoo seems to be doing fine where it is.

Fought the Fight B4 wrote:

<quoted text>As I said, in all the years my family has frequented there, and my family member that works there, none of them have ever heard or seen anything in that neighborhood that would stop them from going. Granted, it can be a rough neighborhood, similar to South Akron, but the zoo seems to be doing fine where it is.

Your family members fit in fine Slim.

Howard Beale Jr wrote:

IMO the economically-feasible opportunity to move the zoo has long passed. Some prime JEDD land in Springfield (Pickle Road) or Coventry (Logan Field) would've been a nice relocation alternative 20 or 30 years ago.

Do you honestly think the white trash that lives in Springfield and Coventry wouldn't go a huntin' at the zoo? On the bright side, I imagine that the zoo animals would improve the smell in that area.

Ronald Reagan wrote:

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Do you honestly think the white trash that lives in Springfield and Coventry wouldn't go a huntin' at the zoo? On the bright side, I imagine that the zoo animals would improve the smell in that area.

You may be right, Gipper. But dat be road-kill country. Why go a-huntin fer supper when you kin come acrost it ready-served on Killian Road?(forgive my hillbilly-bonics)

Now that you mention it, Pressler Road does kinda carry the smell of wet chicken.

Ronald Reagan wrote:

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Your family members fit in fine Slim.

Fit in where? All I am saying is that the big bad boogyman doesn't stalk the zoo. People who live in fear, live in a bad frame of mind. No, I wouldn't live there, but it wouldn't stop me from going to the zoo, if I wanted to go.

Ronald Reagan wrote:

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Do you honestly think the white trash that lives in Springfield and Coventry wouldn't go a huntin' at the zoo? On the bright side, I imagine that the zoo animals would improve the smell in that area.

A little reverse prejudice? I don't see any 300 thousdand dollar homes being built near the zoo. But, you can sure find some fine homes in Springfield and Coventry. Most people who live out there, have mortgages and families, thereby are working families who don't have time for crime. I am not saying it doesn't exist, but it certainly doesn't exist as it does in the inner cities.

Howard Beale Jr wrote:

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You may be right, Gipper. But dat be road-kill country. Why go a-huntin fer supper when you kin come acrost it ready-served on Killian Road?(forgive my hillbilly-bonics)
Now that you mention it, Pressler Road does kinda carry the smell of wet chicken.

You seem to know that area well. Yet, I have a feeling you live on the west side, perhaps Highland Square?