GARGOZO MANUSCRIPT

My invite from Dr. Palmer came via U.S. Mail: The 1979 North Las Vegas Biennial Enduro Friday evening March 22 ·          Opening Ceremony Saturday March 23 Tennis – cutthroat format, best of 3 sets Pissing for distance Ambidextrous bowling – 1 st ball  left-handed, 2 nd ball right-handed Craps – Union Plaza Casino, $25 buy-in, last man standing  Sunday March 24 Batting cage – switch hitting, 10 pitches per side One-eyed miniature Golf Blind-folded pinball Two-deck pinochle Competitors: Dr. Palmer, Deming, NM Munson, Alhambra, CA Gardiol, Eagle Rock, CA The invite was no stranger than the circumstances that had led up to it.  Dr. Palmer and Munson had both relocated to North Las Vegas and were living next door to each other.  Surprisingly no effort was made by the authorities to prevent this from taking place but it was decades prior to the formation of the Dep

Munson's cookie jar rescue from the race track and the shit shower at the Frisco zoo were two hippo-based items posted earlier.  The only rational thing left to do now is include the Bubbles story and wrap up the hippo trifecta.  Lion Country Safari was a drive-through animal preserve located in Orange County in the 1970s.  The 100-acre site was eventually replaced by the Los Olivos Village containing 1,750 apartments and completed in 2014.  Lion Country Safari closed in 1982 never having attracted a sufficient number of visitors to make a go of it.  Several incidents that generated bad press helped bring it down. In addition to bad press insurance claims and premiums shot up when the monkeys started ripping off rubber trim from vehicles.  A few of the lions began dining on some of the other four-footed residents and had to be quarantined.  An Indian elephant named Misty seriously injured one of its handlers two weeks before it escaped from the compound