Interview 6125 – Caption Index: 129
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
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
You had all the barred cages with a tiger, a lion. I think a Jaguar, I don’t know. A big thing with peacocks and deer in it. Alligator pit, and then my idea was, to take this monkey island that was empty, and I got a hippo. And back then,… Read More
I found the elephant in Miami, all right?… Read More
A hippo. So I get the hippo. And then we get the baby elephant. I put the baby elephant and hippo together. Read More
Let me do that, and then I’ll go, I told you I jump around, all right?… Read More
And you can edit this whole thing. So yes, So I get, and I’ll come back to the thing with Julie, ’cause that changed our lives big time. So, therefore I get that opportunity, everybody, to go to Sanford, Florida, and you got to see a picture of this little… Read More