He had just retired, and I got on a plane and flew to Fort Wayne, Indiana, which is not something you do every day.. And I saw this thing and I loved it. And so I came back and I told my board. I said, “I know you’re gonna think I’m crazy, but I think we oughta build one of these carousels.” So we had the second one. Earl built the first one, we built the second one. And my staff was not happy about it at all. But once the money started flowing in and I was able to paint the lion backups and repair the boardwalk at the farm, they said, “Oh, this isn’t too bad.” So we began to add other, what at the time we called fee-based attractions. And, you know, I’m not ashamed to admit some of them were not really zoo-oriented.
