Alligator Pool
Piscina de Lagartos

Alligator Pool

From 1889 to 1965, a small congregation of alligators inhabited an oasis in the middle of San Jacinto Plaza in Downtown El Paso. The Plaza was filled with thick grass, Chinese elms and a large pond with fish, turtles and alligators. Due to vandalism they had to be removed. In 1972, the city brought the alligators back with a plastic shield, but that lasted only a couple of years before they were taken back to the zoo. Now a fiberglass sculpture by Luis Jimenez reminds of the alligators.

Area: Central / Downtown

Collection: Gertrude Fitzgerald Photographs

Source: University of Texas at El Paso Library - Special Collections Department

Reference ID: PH025-3-1-065

Uploaded by: El Paso Museum of History

Report this item

Comments

Add a comment
Thank you for your comment

Report this entry

Choose the most important reason for this report

Your name

Your email address

Optional detail

Thank you for your report

More from the same community-collection

Photography by Carlos Garcia

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Carlos Garcia

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Carolina Alvarez

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Carolina Alvarez

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Carolina Alvarez

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Carolina Alvarez

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Cecilia Fuentes (Cici Fuentes)

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Cecilia Fuentes (Cici Fuentes)

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Christian Igresias (Christian Churches)

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Christian Igresias (Christian Churches)

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Christian Miguel Nassri Ortiz

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Christian Miguel Nassri Ortiz

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Christopher Morales

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Christopher Morales

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Claudia Flores Ramirez (Gigi Flores)

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Claudia Flores Ramirez (Gigi Flores)

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Dalila Valencia

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Dalila Valencia

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Dan Alloway

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Dan Alloway

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Daniel Nava

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Daniel Nava

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

Photography by Daniel Valencia

There is nothing more pleasing and rewarding than witnessing the ...

home.search_collection