Well, uniformly good childhood memories of the zoo. And, and again, back in the day, that’s one of the things that’s, that’s changed a bit now. I mean, I, I think anybody growing up in the fifties and sixties and even into the seventies, zoos were just, there was always… Read More
And what kind of schooling did you have after high school?… Read More
Well, I mean, like most people that grew up in St. Louis, the St. Louis Zoo was a big part of, I mean, it was only the major attraction in St. Louis and we always were regular attendees of the zoo. I have pictures of myself as a, as a… Read More
Childhood memories?… Read More
So what kind of effect did going to the zoo as a kid have on you?… Read More
What zoos did you see growing up?… Read More
I was the fourth of five kids and they were real spread out. And my, my sister, the oldest, my sister Nancy got married when I was six. So, so we were kinda spread out in years. So I mostly grew up with my, my younger brother who was three… Read More
What, what impression did they have on you?… Read More
Were animals a part of your life?… Read More
Always. We had, we had dogs. We were, we were definitely died in the wool dog people. And, you know, we had, we raised hunting dogs. Dad was big into hunting and fishing and, you know, like a, like a lot of folks, my, my brothers were always bringing home,… Read More
And he became an engineer and I became a veterinarian. So How many children were in the family and where were you in the, in the order?… Read More
What was your childhood like growing up?… Read More
Dorothy and Michael P. Meehan. He went by Bud where dad was in advertising and he was the general advertising manager for the St. Louis Globe Democrat, one of the daily newspapers. And mom was a homemaker. Worked at home for most of her life. She did some work at… Read More
And who you were your parents, what did they do?… Read More
I’m Dr. Thomas P. Meehan, and I was born on March 26th, 1952 in St. Louis. Read More
And in the middle of Chira, in the middle of the Giza Zoo is the most beautiful small botanic garden where all the structures are actually there, there are actually made outta tiny little stones. It, so all the pathways are, are just this gorgeous sort of stonery, it’s quite… Read More
Thank you David. Amazing. Alright. All. Read More
And so I turn up one afternoon with equipment ready to immobilize the, we were gonna start with the male lines of two or three male lines with claws, you know, like this. And, and in front of the cage was, oh, I’ve got a ro 10 rows of seats. Read More
It was tricky ’cause we had to certainly didn’t wanna put a giraffe on the ground today, anesthetizing. It’s still risky, but it’s not, you know, the techniques are much better now, we did not want to lay a giraffe flat out under those. So, so, so it was a… Read More
And while I was there, you know, there were a number of other things that really needed to be done and, and helped because they’d had so many complaints, mostly by tourists, by European tourists going to Cairo, going to the zoo. Simply they were told there’s a zoo in… Read More