After the Hurricane Betsy problem, we knew we had to refurbish the zoo as best we could without getting into a lot of big expense. And we knew we had to build a new zoo. One thing the county did was they instituted an admission charge to the zoo, to build up a reserve for funds. Up until that time it had been a free zoo. We averaged over a million people a year in that zoo. (indistinct) it instigated mission why it went down a bit, I think 800,000 or something. But there was still enough money coming in, that they could provide us with more money for doing what we had to fix the zoo up. But our goal, our focus was to develop a new zoo.
