Monkeytown

The story is that truckers call Montgomery, AL "Monkey Town" because of a story about escaped monkeys from the local zoo. The story is that all the monkeys escaped and ran a muck through the city. This is not true. One monkey named Sonny did escape in 1955 and was captured a few days later. Also in 1955, five Rhesus monkeys escaped in Birmingham and they did run through town. Montgomery may be called Monkey Town based on that false story but that has not been proven.

I'm on I-65 headed to Monkeytown and then on North.

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