And so you say, okay. And so I really liked to take all the credit for that, but I can’t because it was her idea. You opened up– Part of the idea that was mine though in the Garden of the Senses were the sculpture, because, you know, early on,… Read More
They’re absolutely. They, they belong to the, they blogged Kaiser Wilhelm. And after, you know, after Germany fell, why they moved them to the zoo. And so that’s one of the things, you know, we’ve got about 40 bronzes now and are working on more. You opened the Eugene Mahoney. Read More
Who was Eugene?… Read More
What was his significant at the Omaha Zoo?… Read More
And what did you hope to accomplish?… Read More
It was kind of one of those things where we had the, we had an old barn down there and we had an old area that had been part of the old park. And it was, it was kind of one of those things where it was, it was the… Read More
But we didn’t, you know if you’d asked me 50 years ago, if we’d ever hired a horticulturist, I said, you know, whatever. No, but, but, but actually, you know, horticulture should be one of the first people that you hire because that makes, you know, that makes the whole… Read More
So you need a geodesic dome. And it needs to be really high. The reason we’ve got a hemisphere and not, there’s a couple of other smaller, smaller ones that are only like a one-third where they come like this, but then the roof never gets high enough that you… Read More
You can’t do shading in a desert. Well, we did do shading actually. There’s a big center portion of that that’s, that’s 50% shade and then 40% and 30%, 10%. So that in December, January, February, when the sun’s coming through, it comes through clear acrylic. In the, in June,… Read More
That hot air bubble in the desert dome gets to be 140, 150 degrees at the top. And we just blow it off. And the idea was to do a big enough hemisphere that it got, you know, that you looked up once and said, wow. And then you’ve concentrated… Read More
Why was the exhibit important?… Read More
You know, you spread out a bed of sand and plant tomato seeds and wet it down and put a plastic cover over. If the tomato seeds sprout and grow good, well, that’s good sand. But we also send it to the lab. We finally found a quarry that didn’t… Read More
And it’s set there and froze. It was wet sand and it froze. So in the first part of March, they rolled in 200, 200 ton each gondola cars full of, just two big ice, to be ice cubes frozen sand. We had one heck of a time getting those… Read More
(chuckling) What was the, who had the concept of the glaze geodesic dome, and why that?… Read More
I did from the standpoint that with the jungle, with the jungle, one of the things that, that by going to other places and you know, and as I said, I believe it really, really believe in going and doing your homework, then go into anything that’s got either anything… Read More
Let me ask a couple of very specific questions. Read More
How’d you get all that sand?… Read More
Well, (chuckling) two things, number one, that huge sand dune, you know, which is like, you know, is really not all sand. It’s on top of, of a, of an egg shape, concrete dome because down below is Kingdom of the Night, and that’s the night sky of the Louisiana… Read More
We had a board president who was an engineer, but as it turns out, we were banging our head against the wall, just struggling. I mean, he was also a donor and we were struggling with him. And finally, you know, Stan Howe, who’s been an architect for years and… Read More
Why don’t, how about us, we come back tomorrow?… Read More