Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 130
Was he?… Read More
Was he?… Read More
No, I left Jim Fowler and went to work– When you were working for Jim Fowler. Mhm. Read More
Was he doing this thing with Marlin at that time?… Read More
The prisoners, all right?… Read More
They came out of there with shotguns. They brought them inside the pen of the zoo. That’s where they had to keep them while the dadgum place was burning down. I mean, I mean, these are things I can’t make up. I wish I could. I got a lot of… Read More
Great, greatest years of our lives. And then Stan Block approached me about doing this video. Now, when you were at the zoo. Well, let me back up just a minute. You worked for Fowler. Read More
And so I’m just telling you, that’s how we ran the zoo there for three years, because what am I to do?… Read More
And one last thing that happened there was a tragedy. You, it’s in this, it’s in a, the county there, I’ll think of the county here in a minute, that Sanford was in, not orange county. Volusia County, I think, yeah. The courthouse caught on fire. That’s where the jail… Read More
Oh who cares?… Read More
I won’t edit this out, but you can use this, by the way, ’cause I don’t get to tell stories like this very often. So I put her in there with her shorts on, and she served cotton candy. Everybody liked to buy cotton candy there. I don’t know if… Read More
Anyway, that’s what we did. Read More
She had, she was nice. She had blonde hair. Read More
My wife’s a pretty lady, okay?… Read More
And she’s still pretty today. Read More
We’d been there for years, that have the monkeys, but I tore the wall out and made it bigger for the little elephant, hippo. And I put Rudolph Alexander on top of there twice a day. He’d do Chimp shows, you know, nothing beating chimps or anything else. He was… Read More
My wife would go in there, and she’s a nice looking woman. Read More
And I’m not saying she’s nice today, but I’m saying she was, what’s the word if I get in trouble here?… Read More
They’re just babies, right?… Read More
I just got a baby hippo, baby elephant. I figured that’d work. In the wild you see them not really play with each other. And they grew up together those three years, I was there. So Big and Fat Boy. So Big was the elephant. I had So Big Sandwich… Read More
And then I got, this is terrible, I know, but there was a guy named Rudolph Alexander, who was a chimp trainer. He just was in the area. I had about 20 chimps out of there. You know, he came from Austria. He was known in the circus world, he… Read More