“I’ll quit before you have to tell me to quit.” And after six months I went and told her. I said, “You know what? I love it here. “I hope I’ve done the right thing by cleaning, “and fixing this whole place up, “and getting your employees “a little bit… Read More
He said, “What’d you do now?… Read More
“You didn’t surely tell them $15,000?” I said, “No, you won’t believe it. Read More
I sat there for, they had a meeting going on, right?… Read More
I went and said hello to them. They sent me back out there. I was there for a half hour, hour, hour-and-a-half. My wife says, “You’re not getting hired. “Jack, this is terrible.” I said, “Let’s wait a little while longer.” Two-and-a-half hours, they come out and get me, and… Read More
“What about gorillas?” I said, “Never seen a gorilla.” “You never seen a gorilla?… Read More
“And we had the first gorilla in the world here, “and have more than one, “only one with three generations now.” I said, “That’s good.” I said, “but I can learn real fast about gorillas. “I’ll know more next time you get me up here.” I said, “By the way,… Read More
And they’ll tell you what I said to them. I went back home, two weeks later, “Come back up here with your family.” I said, “Dad, I’m gonna be hired!” I come back with my family. I go down there when the zoo was only that little area along the… Read More
“I love it. I see the potential out here on this lake here.” I said, “This is unbelievable.” They said, “What do you know about, “what’s the difference between a black and white rhino?” I’ll never forget the question as long as I live. Oh man, I tell you what,… Read More
“What’s the difference in a black and white?” I said, “Well, you know what?… Read More
“The black one, I’m sure lives around a lot more mud “than the white one, “and I’m sure it’s a little bit different, “more grayer than,” Oh my God, They sat there like this. I was in, you know, with the black and the nose, the whole thing, didn’t know… Read More
I went there, flew up there, Stan Brock had a little old plane back then, by the way, a little single engine. He said, “Jack. I’ll fly you up there.” Okay. We were buddies. We hadn’t talked to each other in years, but we communicate every once in a while… Read More
“We don’t have a zoo.” I said, “You got a zoo, here it is, “right here’s the address.” He said, “I never seen the animals up there, “but I know there’s a park up there.” Quote, zoo, taxi cab driver. They drive me up here. I look around this place,… Read More
And in that interview, that second one, I said, “You know something, everybody?… Read More
I got all excited because I did my research, because then Columbus looking for a zoo director?… Read More
And they had one of four hospitals treat her cancer in the country. You talk about fate of the good Lord. Read More
You kidding me?… Read More
Then he knows Julie’s got leukemia and cancer, right?… Read More
He says, “Jack, I know you’re there.” By the way, I was selling real estate too in Knoxville. My buddy that had helped me with the plane. He said, “Jack, let me help you keep you afloat here, “do this.” And so he caught me. He’d catch me all the… Read More
Stan Smulowitz sent me a little clipping from the Columbus Dispatch. His sister went to Ohio State. Columbus Zoo, looking for a zoo director. I still, I can’t find the little clipping, newspaper. Read More