Great Adventure Original Proposal- The Safari



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The following is the original proposal and concept artwork for Great Adventure which was presented to potential investors in the park.   The plans were quite ambitious, and were never fully realized, though some of the earliest concepts appeared in the park in slightly different form when it finally opened in 1974.   The text is verbatim from the original typewritten proposal and is worded and punctuated exactly as it was originally written. 

These images are from the collection of Harry Applegate, and I thank him for sharing them with me.   

THE AREAS
  

II.          SAFARI

A drive-through Safari Park with more than 10 miles of road.   The animals are separated into twelve different sections.   The carnivorous animals are separated by species from each other.    All animals have large barn-like facilities out of sight where they may go during inclement weather.    This is the largest assortment of wild animals in the world outside of Africa .    There are large herds of tigers (45), cheetah (25), puma (25), bears – brown, black, polar (100), giraffe (50), zebra (60), antelope (250), baboons and other monkeys (250), elephants (40), rhinoceri (20), camels (25), ostrich (100), kudu, hartebeest, wildebeest, deer, kangaroo, wild goat, wild sheep, cranes, flamingoes, vultures, hornbills, buffalo, moose, elk and others.   The drive-through Safari has many natural highlights, such as oak and maple forests, lakes and waterfalls, wild flowers and flowering trees.

   

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Overview of the proposed Safari layout which more or less was built as planned.   The sheer numbers of animals proposed for the Safari was unrealistic, and over the years the herds were thinned to reduce overgrazing of the land.

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