{"id":5624,"date":"2021-03-14T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:22:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T01:22:01","slug":"animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Animals!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Banana Republic stores often had large fiberglass (or resin) animals on display. I have been told they were produced by artisans that usually worked for the San Francisco Academy of Sciences, although the quality is a little less realistic. Presumably there are examples of this scattered across the country as store fixtures were sold off or carried away by employees. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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From the Banana Republic Guide to Travel and Safari Clothes book, these photos of the Beverly Hills store show a full size elephant as well as the famous window jeep and a real bush airplane. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A full size male Rhino head from the Birmingham, Michigan store. Courtesy LJS Collectibles<\/a>. Contact them if you are an intersted buyer!


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His female counterpart from the same store. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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This refugee from the San Francisco Grant Ave store now lives in the lobby of the Gap headquarters in SF.

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From a newspaper photo, a fiberglass zebra head wall mount. It’s important to state that no real animal taxidermy was used in the stores.


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Production Artist Mike Madrid poses with darkroom manager Randy Parsons at his desk at Banana Republic\u2019s Bluxhome Street offices in the mid-1980\u2019s. Livingstone the zebra (fake, of course), wearing a blue aviator\u2019s scarf, keeps an eye on things from above.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

These next three photos are courtesy Hepcats Haven<\/a>, a marvelous retro blog you should check out. He scored them off Craigslist and did a nice restoration job on one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kudu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zebra<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gemsbok<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Banana Republic stores often had large fiberglass (or resin) animals on display. I have been told they were produced by artisans that usually worked for the San Francisco Academy of Sciences, although the quality is a little less realistic. Presumably there are examples of this scattered across the country as store fixtures were sold off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,1389],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5624"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12740,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5624\/revisions\/12740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.secretfanbase.com\/banana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}