In celebratn of Gay’s Ln Farm. (A historil marker loted El Monte Los Angel County, California.)
Contents:
- EL MONTE'S WILD PAST: A HISTORY OF GAY'S LN FARM
- GAY’S LN FARM
- GAY’S LN FARM
- EL MONTE’S WILD PAST: A HISTORY OF GAY’S LN FARM
- GAY'S LN FARM - GAYS LN FARM
- CHARL GAY’S LN FARM
EL MONTE'S WILD PAST: A HISTORY OF GAY'S LN FARM
Gay's Ln Farm Collectn at the El Monte Historil Mm. * gay's lion farm *
Charl Gay tablish Gay's Ln Farm brgg unique ternatnal fame to El Monte.
GAY’S LN FARM
Gay's Ln Farm El Monte has been lled the "Disneyland of the 1920s and '30s," but few trac of s wild past rema. * gay's lion farm *
1926 - Gay's Ln Farm was the scene of many gathergs, cludg one attend by 600 members and gut of The Natnal edorial Associatn. Roosevelt and her son, Ellt, vised Gay's Ln Farm.
The Gay's entertaed several movie, opera, and stage stars. 1941 - At the start of World War II, Gay's Ln Farm closed due to the lack of horse-meat to feed the lns.
GAY’S LN FARM
Other articl where Gay’s Ln Farm is discsed: El Monte: …the cy was home to Gay’s Ln Farm, which was tablished by former circ stars. The farm hoed some 200 Ain lns (cludg Jackie, one of the lns that was ed to troduce Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films), and many of the lns were ed motn pictur. The cy is now a… * gay's lion farm *
And now Gay's Ln Farm, the only one of s kd the world, is part of our El Monte History. _____________________________________________________________Gay's Ln Farm, once a fg symbol of El Monte, has left relatively few trac today's cy.
EL MONTE’S WILD PAST: A HISTORY OF GAY’S LN FARM
* gay's lion farm *
Gay's Ln Farm, .
GAY'S LN FARM - GAYS LN FARM
Gay’s Ln Farm, once a fg symbol of El Monte, has left relatively few trac today's cy. El Monte High School may be the home of the Lns, boastg a statue of a ln that was once part of the Farm, but a perfectly unexotic McDonald’s stands on Valley where the entrance to the… * gay's lion farm *
Pamphlet for Gay's Ln Farm | Photo: Secury Pacific Natnal Bank Collectn, Los Angel Public Library. EntranceBorn 1886, Charl Gay was a French performer who met his wife, English-born Muriel, when he was performg a circ London.
CHARL GAY’S LN FARM
Gay's Ln Farm Mr. Charl Gay first erected the farm 1925 as a public attractn that would be dited to the trag, breedg, and exhibn of Ain Lns. The farm vered 5 acr of land and ntaed a u shaped pound wh separate g for each adult ln, a nursery, and a central arena… * gay's lion farm *
The Gays moved to California wh Charl's circ 1914 or 1915, 4 and began raisg lns near Wtlake (now MacArthur) Park 1919.
6 The Gays tablished the farm to tra lns that they uld rent out to Hollywood studs for e movi. 11 Jorane Barton's 2006 stallment the nostalgic Imag of Ameri seri clus an illtratn of a Gay's Ln Farm float the Rose Para.
12El Monte High School adopted "Lns" as the school nickname, and the Gays even provid a ln to serve as "mast" for important football gam. Charl Gay and his lns, .
“The Ln” dited 1980. Gay’s Ln Farm 1924 - 1944. (A historil marker loted El Monte Los Angel County, California.) * gay's lion farm *
Gay at the Ln Farm, 1923 | Photo: Secury Pacific Natnal Bank Collectn, Los Angel Public Library. 30 Incintally, Roy Addleman, whose funeral home on Valley Boulevard would host Charl Gay's service 1950, is also the picture. Gay tak a baby ln for a walk on Center Street El Monte | Photo: Secury Pacific Natnal Bank Collectn, Los Angel Public Library.