{"id":6252,"date":"2015-07-09T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/?p=6252"},"modified":"2015-07-09T13:06:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:06:15","slug":"so-cute-vintage-fejervary-petting-zoo-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/2015\/07\/09\/so-cute-vintage-fejervary-petting-zoo-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"SO CUTE!! Vintage Fejervary Petting Zoo Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mother Goose is once again welcoming children at Fejervary Park.<\/p>\n

The City of\u00a0Davenport Parks & Recreation<\/a>\u00a0Department will be hosting Family Fun Days at Fejervary Learning Center\u00a0on the third Saturday of the month.\u00a0Upcoming dates are\u00a0July 18, August 15, September 19 and October 17. They feature family activities including a\u00a0petting zoo, bounce houses and games.<\/p>\n

Mother Goose Land at\u00a0Fejervary Zoo opened\u00a0in 1953\u00a0and closed in\u00a01979.<\/p>\n

These adorable photos\u00a0came\u00a0from the City of Davenport Leisure Services & Facilities (now called Parks & Recreation) and are part of our Archive & Manuscript Collections.<\/p>\n

Even though the Old West town, Monkey Island, and fairy tale exhibits are no longer; Mother Goose still stands in the beautiful park waiting to greet today’s young visitors.<\/p>\n

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Entrance to children’s zoo at Fejervary Park [ca.1950’s]<\/p><\/div>

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Three children and fawn, calico [May 1956]<\/p><\/div>

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Four girls and ducks by castle in Fejervary Park [ca.1950’s]<\/p><\/div>

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Boy holding raccoon [ca. 1950’s]<\/p><\/div>

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People watching ducks by castle in Fejervary Park [ca. 1950’s]<\/p><\/div>

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Children petting donkey at Fejervary Park [May 1958]<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mother Goose is once again welcoming children at Fejervary Park. The City of\u00a0Davenport Parks & Recreation\u00a0Department will be hosting Family Fun Days at Fejervary Learning Center\u00a0on the third Saturday of the month.\u00a0Upcoming dates are\u00a0July 18, August 15, September 19 and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[1383,41,1382,1384,1385,454,319],"class_list":["post-6252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-history","tag-1950s","tag-davenport-iowa","tag-fejervary-park","tag-mother-goose","tag-mother-goose-land","tag-parks","tag-photographs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXc-1CQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6252"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6252\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/sc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}