Alabama Newscenter — Miss Fancy the Elephant Returns Triumphant to Birmingham’s Avondale Park

By Donna Cope

Miss Fancy has returned to her old stomping grounds at Avondale Park in Birmingham.

For about 20 years, the huge elephant reigned supreme at the Avondale Zoo, the city’s first large public zoo. It closed in 1934.

It’s been about eight years since a bronze statue of Miss Fancy, affectionately known as Little Miss Fancy, was “spirited away” after a drunk driver damaged the piece, said Avondale resident Leslie Smukler. After that, the statue’s whereabouts were largely unknown until Smukler investigated and learned the damaged piece was being housed at Legion field, in a storage room.

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