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The San Antonio Zoo shared this rendering on Fb of what a revamped Sky Journey attraction would seem like.
Conserving with a practice, the San Antonio Zoo trotted out its annual April Fools prank on Monday, claiming in a phony information launch that it is resurrecting the Alamo Metropolis’s long-gone Sky Journey.
For these new to city, the Sky Journey was a gondola attraction at Brackenridge Park that provided riders an aerial view of the zoo, the Japanese Tea Backyard and the park grounds. It operated from 1964 till it was decommissioned in 1999.
On Monday, Zoo officers pulled a quick one on native reporters and unsuspecting residents, saying it should use the gondolas to attach its amenities to the booming Peal district.
“On virtually a each day foundation, somebody will point out the Sky Journey to me and ask when or if it should return,” San Antonio Zoo President and CEO Tim Morrow mentioned in an announcement.” We’ve been desirous to deliver this iconic experience again to San Antonio, and this new idea is an ideal complement to the expansion of midtown and its unimaginable facilities.”
However alas, it was all a joke. And a merciless one at that. Who would not need to see the Sky Journey make a return?
Be that as it might, no less than one media outlet appeared to take the bait. Speak radio station WOAI-AM initially ran an on on-line article on the zoo’s plan then took it down.
The San Antonio Zoo has seized on April 1 as an excuse to tug quick ones on unsuspecting San Antonio residents since no less than 2020. That 12 months, the zoo issued a information launch saying keepers had allowed three of its elephants to roam round Brackenridge Park and take a dip within the San Antonio River.
KSAT and nationwide publication The Hill each reported the elephant story earlier than realizing they’d been had.
Final 12 months, the zoo joked that it was opening a Boerne-based beaver exhibit dubbed “Beaver Tales Wilde Life Park” in collaboration with the truck cease operator Buc-ees, whose mascot is — you guessed it — a smiling, buck-toothed beaver.
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