Children's Zoo

My childhood petting zoos never involved petting lion cubs and sharing playgrounds with baby goats! Photos from the San Diego children's zoo, 1959 (SD), and Brookfield children's zoo, 1953 (B).

Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc.

A little girl meet a 2 month old camel named Barmey (SD). Source

Allan Grant, LIFE © Time Inc.

Petting lion cubs (SD). Source

Howard Sochurek, LIFE © Time Inc.

Getting to know a baby elephant. (B). Source

Allied Soldiers Like London and London Likes Them

A nice set of photos from the Ministry of Information capturing some of the non-British Empire troops in London, 1940. They came with the title. 

From the Imperial War Museum.

Czech soldiers walk down a London street. Source

A policeman gives directions to a group of Free French soldiers. Source

Czech soldiers and airmen buy tobacco. Source

Illuminations

Dramatic photographs of searchlit skies. 

A Douglas Dakota of the British Overseas Airways Corporation at Gibraltar, silhouetted by searchlights on the Rock, 1940-45. Source

Searchlights on the Rock at Gibraltar, 1942. Source

An Avro Lancaster on the runway before taking off for an air raid, with searchlights indicating the height of the cloud base, 1943. Source

London Transport Posters of the 1960s

While the 20s and 30s were a Golden Age of London Transport poster design, these 60s ones certainly have their charms!

Poster by Victor Galbraith, 1960. Source

Poster by Victor Galbraith, 1960. Source

Poster by Victor Galbraith, 1960. Source

Nightlife in Paris, 1949

All kinds of clubs for all kinds of tastes, Paris, 1949.

Photos by Gjon Mili for LIFE.

Content advisory: partial nudity

Jitterbugging and saxophones at La Rose Rouge. Source

Inside La Scheherazde. Source

Clowns performing among patrons at Caveau des Oubliettes. Source