The biggest crowd I’ve ever had was 14,000 and some. For a little old zoo, the city limit, the population of Topeka is 120,000 or something. That day we had 21,995 people go through the zoo. Somebody said, “Why don’t you round it off to 22,000?” Well, cut in all the volunteers there, by the way, we had more than 21,000 in the zoo, but the official visitor attendance count was 21,905. Never been surpassed. Our whole end of town was gridlocked. Even though we knew it’d be busy, and we had shuttle buses down to shopping center parking lots to bring people up and we’d made plans, but even so, it was terrific.
