Jim Dolan hired me. He, it was Teamsters Union and they didn’t wanna hire anybody from the outside. And they wanted me to work in a restaurant first. And I refused to do that. I said, oh, I’m gonna work at Lion Country. And, but they made an exception for me. And I got hired on January 15th, 1979, I believe was my first keeper job at the san, at the San Diego Safari Park. It was a wild animal park back then.
