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Antique scenic souvenir post cardLinen era, circa 1950
Postmark Sarasota FL
Metrocraft (Metropolitan) publishers
A COLORFUL MACAW QUARTET IN THE PARROT JUNGLE,
RED ROAD, MIAMI, FLORIDA
The vision of Franz Scherr, the founder of Parrot Jungle was to create a garden habitat so pleasant that the parrots could fly freely and choose to stay. Among the original birds brought to live at the park were macaws, the largest parrots in the world. Since 1936, over a million visitors visited his Parrot Jungle, including at least one former U.S. president, and one UK Prime Minister. See the first thumbnail below for a story about that. . .
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Info source - Miami's Parrot Jungle and Gardens: The Colorful History of an Uncommon Attraction. ISBN-10: 081301817X
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Some of these birds are also found at Parrot Mountain in Pigeon Forge, TN
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I know Pigeon Forge! Hmm I don't think I have any post cards from that specific place, but will look, sounds like a colorful spot to visit!
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I have some pics from there in my Dropbox
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I googled it and found some! Looks like a lovely place to stop for a day of fun with some friendly feathers.
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Glad you found them
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I went there about that time as a youngster. I had forgotten that.
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did you see the bird show? I remember a bird riding a bicycle - that was pretty funny to see. they are so smart!
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Yes, I did. I was 1 1/2-2 at the time and only remember flashes.
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The two on the left appear to be oddly-colored blue and yellow macaws, while the two to the right have their accurate plumage represented.
This same card was originally run by the Curt Teich Co. of Chicago in the 1930s - and the colors were correct on the birds on the original version. So perhaps this later run by this other company offered Franz a better deal on printing, at the expense of quality?
This is the type of thing that postcard geeks think about instead of watching television. . .
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I thought of another possibility, just now, while musing about the years that had passed between the original CT card and this one, and how in the past here I'd written about inter-racial relationships between the birds. The keepers initially tried pairing the macaws up in a breeding program of their own design, but the birds weren't having any of it and wanted to choose their own mates instead. Love is color-blind! The Scherr Family eventually relented and indulged the birds allowing them to raise generation after generation of chicks at the park for many years.
Could the funky coloration on this card actually be a nod to the baby boom of hybrids born at the Parrot Jungle to mixed race parents?
Vintage Miami - Macaw Family, Parrot Jungle
There are chicks in that nest. Barely visible among all that Spanish moss but they're in there!
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It's a mystery, alright. I had no idea of the possibility of inter racial breeding, but it surely adds spice and heartiness to the offspring, doesn't it? At any rate, it makes the lore of these cars quite interesting, if not to the cognoscenti, then , at least to us Hoi palloi.
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