Comments on: The Jungle, Anaheim CA, 1959

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:02:55 +0000

OMG … I should have been working instead of reading this, my afternoon is filled with sadness now. WOW

By: Nancy

Nancy — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:01:16 +0000

I think there’s a lesson in here for Michael Jackson and Bubbles.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:32:33 +0000

Wow did that bring back memories, I worked for the phone co in 1962 and we use to go to the Palms for Dinner when we had to work overtime. It was great food at a great price, and a lot of fun. Wish we could go back in time. A lot of names are hard for me to remember now wish I could see everyone again. Glen42744@comcast.net

By: NJ

NJ — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:12:39 +0000

I grew up in Anaheim in the 60’s and 70’s and live in Fullerton now. My sister used to go to The Jungle with her friends in high school in the mid 60’s- it was the hip place to hang out. I was sad when they tore out the tall tropical trees to make way for the office building that is on the corner now. The hotel is still next door though. Thanks for bringing a fuzzy memory back into focus. R.I.P. Jerry…..

By: Shelley-ku

Shelley-ku — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:03:06 +0000

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By: Christy

Christy — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:21:57 +0000

I swear I am not a nut case, but I tend to have sense things when I am in certain places and I have always had a problem driving through the intersection there near where the Dutton Jungle was. I get a forboding, sad feeling and I usually tear up. I never knew why… Maybe I now I do.

By: CHRIS PEIRCE

CHRIS PEIRCE — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:44:29 +0000

Man,what a touching story,I’m a native Californian and this is the first I’d heard of the Jungle.Poor Jerry,god rest his little soul.Even sadder that Dutton was forced into a position,to even attempt something like that!I’ll have to ask my folks if this place rings a bell w/them.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 00:17:49 +0000

I remember the zoo very well! We went there a few times when I was small as we lived about 2 miles from it. It was on the corner of Orangethorpe & Raymond, next to the old Laura Scudders potato chip plant. The last time I was there I was about 16 (this was around 1970) and just before it closed forever. There was a little chimp there that the zookeeper let me hold (could it have been Jerry’s grandchild??) and a big, sad gorilla that had a head wound. He was so miserable and angry in his tiny cage. So depressing!!. This horrifying 50’s story of poor Jerry and his “dad” Jack Dutton shows everything was not exactly picture-perfect in suburbia! What a place, and what a story. The seedy underbelly of Jungle Palms!

By: Tom from Long Island

Tom from Long Island — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:17:17 +0000

Well, that story is a topper! It’s sounds like a gangster type execution. Dig your own grave and blam! Sad, but also a lesson in human nature and our inhumanity to animals. Good story!

By: John Danenhauer

John Danenhauer — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 16:21:04 +0000

i sure remember the Jungle….i have photos of my grandfather(WB “Danny” Danenhauer,proprieter of Dannys Texaco,across from the Fullerton Fox,in the fifties,) holding Jerry,like they were best friends….my ex wife and i spent our Honeymoon in the motel there,in 1982…..i didnt know the fate of Jerry,and im not too altogether sure im glad to have found out…..poor Jerry.