Louis Goebel

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Louis J. Goebel (born November 15, 1896 in Buffalo , Erie County (New York) , † April 20 or 24, 1981 in Thousand Oaks ) was an American animal trainer and founder of Goebel's Lion Farm , later Jungleland USA .

The son of a butcher worked for Gay's Lion Farm and Universal Studios in the 1920s and looked after the studio animals. When the studio wanted to close his menagerie , he acquired the animals, including six lions. In Thousand Oaks, on Ventura Boulevard (now Thousand Oaks Boulevard), he bought a piece of land and opened his farm in 1926. On June 20, 1928, he married Kathleen (1906-2004), who had complained that the lion's roar interfered with milking cows.

On the one hand, an animal amusement park was created with the purchase of additional land. On the other hand, they looked after and trained the animals for the TV and film studios. The stuntman Bill Raymond, who also worked for Daktari , says that in the 1930s to 1950s, 90 percent of the movie animals came from Goebel. Goebel's head coach was Louis Roth (* around 1885 in Hungary; Mabel Stark's second husband ), who was followed in the 1940s by Melvin Koontz (1910-1992). At the time of World War II, they had around 100 lions, leopards, bears, elephants, monkeys, water buffalo, camels, zebras and other wildlife. From 1946 they had sold and repurchased the park several times because the buyers could not operate it economically - whereby it was renamed under 20th Century Fox in Jungleland . From 1962 he operated it again in company with the animal dealer Ruhe. When they leased the park to Roy Cabot, the property tax was raised several times in the mid-1970s, so the park had to be closed.

His widow moved to Morgan Hill with their daughter Alma in November 1986 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Louis Goebel in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.nytimes.com/1981/04/25/obituaries/louis-goebel-84-animal-trainer-ran-jungleland-lion-compound.html
  3. ↑ http://articles.latimes.com/1986-11-13/news/we-25383_1_wild-animals
  4. ^ Kathleen D. Parks Goebel in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  5. ↑ Ken Beck: The Encyclopedia of TV Pets
  6. ↑ http://www.geostan.ca/animals.html
  7. ↑ Melvin Koontz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Goebel, Louis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goebel, Louis J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American animal trainer and founder of Goebel's Lion Farm
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , Erie County (New York)
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1981 or April 24, 1981
Place of death Thousand Oaks