With the possible exception of the Marshal Field in the Chicago Loop, I've never found a department store that comes close, including in both San Francisco & LA. It was the best for top to bottom dollar selection. One of the things was I miss most about it was the huge multistory Lazarus Dept. This species was ubiquitous in California. This would annoy me because it raised my blood pressure for fear that I was actually going to run over one. Then they would dart into the under story. They would run along on the single track ahead of me until at the last second before I was about to run over them. except these have much longer tails & a somewhat elongated body. They look a little like the lizards that I've encountered Mt. Hey tradio have any of these lizards been sighted up around Oxford? Miami campus would be a fine habitat for these guys. We've lived in this house for over 30 years and there were no lizards here 10 years ago. I live in the northwest part of the county, about 25 miles from the Walnut Hills area where their plight began. I have finally succeeded to capture one on camera and can share their story and pictures with UHH. They are now protected by the state of Ohio and nobody can harm one or keep one in captivity with out a permit. I've been trying to capture them with camera for a long time. They seem harmless and are fun to try to catch. They eat many harmful insects, especially mosquitoes. Apparently some of theses fellows have floated across the Ohio River and are now inhabiting northern Kentucky. Now they can be found in almost all the neighborhoods in Hamilton county, especially in stone walls and garden land scraping. He released them into his family's backyard in Walnut Hills area in Cincinnati and the lizards took it from there. Rau recalled he had managed to capture ten of the elusive little lizards and brought them back with him to Cincinnati hidden in socks in his luggage. During a family vacation to Lake Garda in northern Italy. George Rau was in 1951, then 10 years old, stepson of Fred Lazarus III, a well-known member of the family who founded the Lazarus chain of department stores in Ohio. Another story has the prominent Lindner family had inadvertently brought them back in potted plants that they bought overseas. In another version a boy who vacationed in Switzerland kept a few as pets. In one tale, a returning WW II soldier brought them back from Europe. How did they ever get to Cincinnati? There are really alot of them: it is estimated that good habitat areas have as many as 1500 of these guys per acre and there are probably in excess of a million of them with in the city limits.įor decades ,no one was really sure how they first got here. The Cincinnati Lazarus Lizard is really the Common Wall Lizard, (Podarcis muralis) and ranges in most of southern Europe from Spain to Turkey (Cincinnati?).
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