How the short-lived Glen Park zoo was once the hottest attraction in town FacebookTwitterEmail Admission Day at Glen Park, 1898 Sept. 17.San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library A pair of baboons, a pair of hyenas, a pair of grey foxes and a pair of black bears were on the list. So were a pair of badgers, coyotes and kangaroos. Two by two, the list went on, but this wasn’t Noah’s Ark. This was a list made in 1897 by real estate developer Archibald Baldwin in preparation for starting his zoo in what is now San Francisco’s Glen Park canyon.