The condition of the zoo when I stepped in was still, still bad. There were attempts- I think over the period of years of Bill’s administration, he was just trying to put it back together to make it an institution that was functional. So he was repairing old buildings, but there were still a lot of old buildings and poor exhibits and often, buildings, if you had a choice, you would close rather than keep open, but obviously a business, you still had to open. So when I came in, I think it was in 1970- See the Cincinnati Zoo, I think perhaps why it slid into a zoo of disrepair and very little care was the fact that it was the only show in town. We didn’t have any zoos around us. The closest aquarium was Chicago. The closest zoo was 300, 400 miles away, but all of a sudden there was a zoo developed in Indianapolis. There was a zoo developed in Louisville, and we had a kind of an unusual situation.
