Cleaning the Elephants featured-pets "To people who looked up

"To people who looked up from the river at the big arch of electric lights it seemed as if Noah's ark were emptying itself over on Long Island

along with this stunning photograph taken on the Dalmatian Coast by Andy Haslam

The end came abruptly for the Third Avenue El

add British accents and a sharp sense of humor

I really just can't get over it

Cleaning the Elephants featured-pets "To people who looked upThe elephant exhibit gets cleaned by vacuums and feather dusters at the American Museum of Natural History on Feb. 28, 1951. It's part of spring cleaning at the 25 acre museum, a process requiring 135 workers and a month of scrubbing elephants, dinosaurs, totem poles, teepees and 94,000 square feet of glass. The Times wrote on March 1, 1951, "The 135 man corps of the custodian's department of the American Museum of Natural History has come to a time