Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 266
We don’t even work together in the state of Ohio. Read More
We don’t even work together in the state of Ohio. Read More
I love all those other zoo directors, okay?… Read More
And when I go to, when I come back from out of town, like I did yesterday, what’d I do?… Read More
She’ll tell you. I went to Africa, I made a few suggestions. They can do it or not do it. I went and saw the bathrooms. I just was a little late here, ’cause I wanted to go see the bathrooms in my office. I just, I watch things like… Read More
Maybe when it started really growing about 15 years ago. That lady is incredible. We took her away from Honda. I go in there and she’ll, I even, I haven’t seen Kate, let’s say I’m filming for three or four weeks. I don’t go to the office. I’ll run right… Read More
Tell me, I don’t even run the zoo, by the way. But I want to know what’s happening. Then I go to my office because the gist is in that human resource office of the people work here. A lot of people preach it, they don’t practice it in this,… Read More
I can’t, I still can’t get over it, okay?… Read More
A parking lot, the parking lot out there, that’s the largest one in Ohio, I think. Someone says it is. Well, second for sure. That cost me, cost the zoo, $9 million to build it. I said, “You’re crazy! “I don’t wanna build a dumb parking lot. “Park on the… Read More
I fixed up the bathrooms. Read More
And then the help started. ‘Cause I let them, everything we built back then, was done in house, everything. Read More
Now, today, you kidding me?… Read More
I dunno, I like architects. Don’t get me wrong, architects, you didn’t run the zoo. I’m just saying that a million dollars to design something. Read More
And finally they saw that I was just gonna, by God, help them. I got them new uniforms and said Columbus zoo, not Sewers and Drains. That’s how I started. They called me Traprot Brown, because I took all these buildings that were falling down and painted them. I said,… Read More
It’s the people and the visitor that suffer. The staff that suffer. The animals, yes, they may have mud, they may be lousy accommodations, but most of them look pretty healthy. I’ve never been to many zoos in this country where the animals just sit there, except roadside things, where… Read More
“Remember that, Jack, it could be old and clean. “So do something about the zoo, paint it.” He came up here once, he said, “This place is a wreck. “Can’t you just paint these buildings?” They called me Traprot Brown. I took every building this place and painted it brown. Read More
Oh, here’s another, here’s this young guy. Let’s see what he does, had a union here, and I’m not really a union person, but the point is that they should’ve had a union, the way they were treated, you know. They weren’t hurting them or nothing, It’s just no one… Read More
Got that, had my breakfast with my family, my brother and sister lived there, had our Christmas opening, had our lunch, got back in the car and got back here by five o’clock Christmas day. That was the first, maybe it was longer than six years, I know it was… Read More
We had more fun up here than a barrel of monkeys. Now I look back on it. We had a board, yes, and, but the zoo was 15 miles out of town. No one really cared what went on. You could see that when I got here, but you know… Read More
I think he had three directors, three directors in two years, right?… Read More
They kind of let you do what you wanted to do or?… Read More