But there was no question that there was no strong friendly rapport from that moment on between him and the park commissioners. And I think part of his going to St. Louis was that they in a sense were aware of this history and bought the package, he was going down there, not only as the new zoo director for St. Louis Zoo, but he was going down there as Mr. Television. And so they were comfortable with the fact that he’d be a television person and a zoo director, whereas in Chicago pretty much, I think the people that Marlin worked with and worked for at the Park District were in a sense comfortable that he was leaving, it was not a happy camper situation. So I don’t really recall clearly the amount of interaction we had, how much help Marlin gave me with the bureaucratic ways of the district. I’m assuming they were pretty minimal, and I had to kinda sorted out myself. Either the zoo at the time I took over was from my perspective, all good and positive. Lovely park, had my office in the Old Monkey House. I thought that the buildings were in reasonable condition, the grounds looked reasonable, the animal collection was great.
