To reach Coalinga, you have to get off Interstate 5 and onto Highway 33.
As you drive north towards the town, Coalingas oil field will come into view.
You will see several oil pump jacks busy bobbing up and down doing their job.
Soon the Iron Zoo became a community project.
“Families came out on the weekends, even the mayor and his family painted one.
The response to the project was overwhelming, Jean said.
At its peak, the Iron Zoo had over fifty decorated pump jacks.
That was a long time back.
Only a handful of Jeans iron animals now remain.
They are old, faded and rusted.
