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Fairyland Zoo, Black Hills, SD felt pennant banner
Fairyland Zoo, Black Hills, SD felt pennant banner
Fairyland Zoo, Black Hills, SD felt pennant banner
Fairyland Zoo, Black Hills, SD felt pennant banner

Fairyland Zoo, Black Hills, SD felt pennant banner

$ 14.73

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Condition: Pennant is all there including the tassels. There is some fraying on the edges of the pennant. There are some brown spots on the pennant on both the front and back.
  • Handmade: No
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
  • Modified Item: No
  • Type: pennant flag banner

    Description

    Vintage Fairyland Zoo, Black Hills, SD
    felt pennant banner
    1960’s
    6 ½” x 17 1/4” plus 4” tassels   (tassels are faded and now look more gray than blue)
    I cannot find much history about Fairyland Zoo.  My husband brought this pennant back from a trip he took to South Dakota in the 60's and he remembers going to the zoo.
    The zoo is no longer open and I cannot find out when it closed.
    This is the only information I can find:   Earl Brockelsby founded
    Reptile Gardens
    in 1937. Born on the dusty plains of Kadoka, a stone’s throw from the Badlands, in 1916, Brockelsby was a visionary who foresaw the rise of automobile tourism even before Mount Rushmore was completed.
    Not all of Earl’s business ventures were successful.
    He was unable to keep Fairyland Zoo going,
    and his attempt to market squirrel monkeys as pets backfired.
    I will need to carefully roll the pennant in order to mail it first class