Well, Walter Chute with George Morse and one of the architects from Graham, Anderson by the name of Shavani, took a trip to Europe, and they went to aquariums in Germany, and Italy and other places and collected the best ideas they could from every aquarium. They went to Naples, and they went to Berlin, and places like that. And I think took the best ideas from those aquariums and incorporated it into the design of Shedd, along with any new ideas they may have come up with. One of the stories that Walter Chute told me is that the architects asked him, “Well, now how high should the tanks be above where the aquarists are standing?” And Chute looked at him, and he says, “Oh, about the height of the second button on my vest.” So that’s why that the tanks were that high. What were some of the Keystone exhibits at the time when it opened that you recollect that were told to you. Well, most of the tanks were… I’ll have to say without much imagination, the actual tanks themselves. They were rectangular or square concrete tanks, but probably the size of some of the tanks were at that time pretty extraordinary.
