The park is still owned by the same family of investors from South Africa and is run as a family style business. They had parks in Tx and Africa(yes, Africa). LCS, West Palm is the last remaining park in the company. My wife now works at LCS in West Palm Beach, Fl. I loved that park and remember it with very fond memories. I worked at LCS in Irvine it's last season before closing due to lack of attendance and continuing problems with Irvine Meadows Amphiteater. I feel sorry for the kids growing up today hitched to their pc's and X Box with no personality forming memories of places like LCS. LCS was OC just as much as it was located in it. I loved that place and attached myself to it like my old local friends did with the beach in Huntington. I remember the park's official mascot resident, Frazier and how he was in the news almost every week for some event they were having at the park. I grew up in the HB, FV, Costa Mesa area and had many a great memory of Lion Country Safari.
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If anyone knows how to get a hold of anyone who may know, could you call me at (714) 654-6636 or e-mail me (Gail Kawanami) at am so glad that I fell onto this website and had a moment to reminensce. Laura and I are still best buddies and we have often wondered what happened to our report when the park closed down. And this was in the days before Internet came along.
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we produced a full scale report (complete with photographs and diagrams to accompany the long hours of research that we did). We actually got to know the different lions where we could recognize the different males, females and cubs. I still remembered how we laughed so hard when we would watch them make "o-shaped faces with their mouths" and noticed that the roars of the lions were not like the MGM lion roar that I was accustomed to seeing on television. I believe we went several times a week for about a month and we learned so much about these fascinating creatures. We made arrangements with the facility and park to be parked and posed for recording action at the break of dawn when the park rangers fed the lions. Laura and I (being the cat lovers that we are) picked the lions at Lion Country Safari as our project topic for this awesome class being taught by Dr. One of my fondest memories of Orange County and my college days at the University of California at Irvine was working on a project for an Animal Social Behavior class with Laura Robinson.
I believe the Irvine Amphitheater is now located where Lion Country Safari once stood.If you have any memories of Lion Country Safari, please click on "Post a Comment" below, and share with us what you remember. Seeing wild animals from the window of my mom's car was quite a thrill! Frazier the lion was always my favorite and it was really sad to see him pass away from old age in the early 1970's. Was a kid growing up in Huntington Beach, I used to really enjoy the drive through Lion Country Safari Park located down in Irvine. We always looked for the giraffe's as their heads stood out quite easily. I have too many brilliant memories of an expansive and "wild" area where you could see the animals at Lion Country Safari from the freeway (if you can call it that then - a couple of lanes either side with a huge dirt ditch in the middle - you could actually do a u-turn if you wanted to on it). It just never happened.īelow are some e-mails we received during the old days of concerned Lion Country Safari: By: Tamara, 5 July 2002 My expectation was to see hungry lions walk up to your car, and inquisitive ostriches peck at your windows, just like you saw in the brochures.
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Everyone in attendance was free to get into the cars and go through the tour to see the wild animals.įrom what I remember, I wasn't all that impressed. We mostly congregated at a picnic area designated for large groups. It was part of a company picnic that my step-father was involved in. My family didn't take any photos that I know of. The first and only time I visited Lion Country Safari was when I was 14 years old.
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