✨Vintage San Francisco 🐾 Zoo Key 🔑Talking Storybook ✪ Mint Condition ✪ 2017✨

Description

The Talking Story Book System was an educational series of recordings in a loud speaker placed near many of the animal enclosures at various zoos. There was about a 1 minute narration about the animal's habitat and other interesting facts.
San Francisco was the first zoological park to feature this key activated device. They implemented this in 1959.
Keys were sold at gift/ souvenir shops or at refreshment stands throughout the park and kids just loved working their key in the talking books.
The first designs utilized an elephant style key and it was a mechanical system where rotating the key would hit a switch to activate the recording.
This zoo has featured several animal styles and colors over the years.
This
Orange Tiger
was issued in 2017 and is now out of production.
The Tiger keys are unusual as they are imprinted with "Key to San Francisco Zoo" on both sides.  All other keys have "Visit your Zoo Often".
This key will work at other zoos such as, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Cincinnati and Oakland.
Thank you to all the eBay Zoo Key collectors who bought some of these older keys over the last year.
These keys are becoming rare and collectible.
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