From the Archives: The San Diego Zoo went on the auction block in 1932

On Aug. 30, 1932 San Diego Assessor James Hervey Johnson, who had concluded that the San Diego Zoo owed the county more than $6,000 in back taxes, held a public auction to sell the animals and "all the fixtures—including hay for the elephants."

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