Back in the late 60s/early 70s, there was a place on Lincoln Way East in PA that had full grown black bears and tiger in cages.
If you had the filthy lucre to spare, you could ‘ride one’ and get your picture taken.
Oddly enough, my parents always seemed to be short of cash when I asked so we just stopped and looked at them when in the area.
[I now suspect they were just jerking me around about the money flow because they *had* the bucks to buy me one of the cheaper-than-the-Polaroids stuffed bears]...:))
Funny how a forgotten memory can be triggered by something someone else said....
There’s a place near the highway that advertises tigers and big cats and bears and snakes, the kids always want me to stop there, but I dunno...the whole place looks like it’s been thrown together from old pallets and chicken wire.