<Tr> <Th> Location </Th> <Td> Los Angeles, California </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Coordinates </Th> <Td> 34 ° 08 ′ 01" N 118 ° 17 ′ 20" W ﻿ / ﻿ 34.1337 ° N 118.2888 ° W ﻿ / 34.1337; - 118.2888 Coordinates: 34 ° 08 ′ 01" N 118 ° 17 ′ 20" W ﻿ / ﻿ 34.1337 ° N 118.2888 ° W ﻿ / 34.1337; - 118.2888 </Td> </Tr> <P> Griffith Park Zoo was a city - owned zoo in Los Angeles, California that opened in 1912 and closed in 1966 with the opening of the Los Angeles Zoo . The abandoned site of the Griffith Park Zoo, complete with the ruins of animal enclosures, is now a picnic area and hiking trail in Griffith Park . </P> <P> The first zoo in Los Angeles was the Eastlake Zoo in East Los Angeles, which opened in 1885 . The Griffith Park Zoo opened in 1912 with a grand total of 15 animals . The new zoo was built on the site of Griffith J. Griffith's defunct ostrich farm . In the mid 1920s, film producer William Nicholas Selig donated many of the animals from his studios, which he had attempted to convert into an animal theme park, to the new zoo . </P>

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