Again, a reason to, is the community grew up around us. Now, all of a sudden we had kids and we had schools because my first community was wealthy people in country clubs who had second homes. That was the community in the ’70s and ’80s, and then the school… Read More
Absolutely. Read More
How effective do you think the exhibits have been in raising public awareness about endangered species?… Read More
Was there anything special about that birth?… Read More
Not that, I mean, we had several born over the years. We had a very tough male zebra called Fenton who was an animal not to be reckoned with, but. Read More
What does tough mean?… Read More
He’d just as soon eat you as look at you, and on more than one occasion, he could give people a heart attack ’cause you’d wonder if he was really gonna stop at the fence when he decided to charge including myself one day, but…… Read More
Yes we did. Read More
How?… Read More
I smile because I loved them and hated them. I used to complain bitterly to anybody that would listen to frankly, very little avail that we would spend, in some cases now millions of dollars creating naturalistic exhibits into which we would throw bowling balls and other things. And I… Read More
Is that- We made facilities available. We never had our own research staff. We would make facilities available for visiting researchers and if somebody could prove a legitimate requirement for material from us, we certainly would provide it. We’d do everything we could, but we didn’t have the funding. I… Read More
That continues today?… Read More
As far as I know, yeah. Read More
Did you embrace enrichment programs?… Read More
And before I can go even open my mouth, he says to his wife, “Do you have your checkbook?” And she said, “Yeah.” Then she reaches down in her purse and she pulls out a checkbook like you and I pull out a checkbook. And he says, “Well, write her… Read More
Did they continue to support the display?… Read More
Mm hm. And they, part of all the construction, he’d go out and he’d look at me. To this day I have no idea where they got their money. Everybody would always smile and say, “Oh yeah, it’s their money,” but everybody would smile. So, I have no idea wherever… Read More
As part of what you were doing with the facility, you were doing research at the Living Desert?… Read More
Everything’s got a name. Okay, I can do that. So, we divided the thing up into all these little chunks, all the way down to even the sidewalk. We had done steps to education and for the education sidewalk to pay for the sidewalk, so we sold squares of sidewalk… Read More
So, I had this older couple had come in to see me because they had sent me a $25,000 check out of the blue with no restrictions on it, and I had rung them up and said, “Wow, thank you. Wow, that’s a lot of money,” which it was in… Read More