“Come here a minute.” I go, “Holy mackerel!” Even the zoo’s, the gorilla staff go. “This is impossible, there is no gorillas, “been born in a zoo.” Everybody went nuts. They called the media. National geographic got involved, came and set up cameras. Everybody did. Nick picked the day of… Read More
So all of a sudden, it happens two days prior to when he said it was gonna happened. The baby squirts out, and she takes the afterbirth, eats it and sits there and nurses the baby. Then everybody’s up there going, “Oh my gosh, when’s the next one coming?” “I… Read More
“I’ll bring doctors in from the Ohio State, “from your veterinarian, “You got veterinarians down here.” Which were then starting to work here. Now the whole zoo is involved with the Ohio State Veterinary School, which it’s been the last 10 years, obviously. So then we started doing our physical… Read More
So anyway, he sonogram, or what do you call it?… Read More
The thing we put that jelly on. Ultrasound. he did one of those things, and he goes like this, just normal, “That’s amazing. “This amazing, Jack, I guess, I don’t know, “maybe it isn’t amazing. “There’s two heads here.” And I said, “Nick, that’s not even funny. That’s stupid. “Don’t… Read More
Twin gorillas,and then I had a veterinarian help me, or not a veterinarian, my wife’s gynecologist, can you imagine this?… Read More
‘Cause the gorilla’s having eclampsia. I don’t know what eclampsia is, a thing females get, all right, when they have babies and stuff. It’s, it can be fatal. And Nick was a gynecologist. And they did an autopsy on the gorilla when it’d pass, and it was eclampsia, something all… Read More
Oh my God, I sat there and just, I damn near started crying. I just couldn’t believe what I was seeing. And then our, even the staff were going crazy. Then the word got out, and then all about 100-and-something thousand people start pouring into the place. Read More
Then what do we have right after that?… Read More
This just shows you what can happen. Twin gorillas, for the first time in the zoological world, were born at the Columbus zoo and survived, by the way. Read More
We opened that thing, I think June 15th of, hold on a minute, be ’81, ’82, I don’t remember. And I’ll tell you something. We had media there, everybody that day. We opened those doors up. ‘Cause I should have practiced beforehand. I know that, but I didn’t. And I… Read More
It couldn’t happen. I opened that door up, Colo comes, and she looks like this. One gorilla go like this, and go back in the building. Not one day, two days, third day. They didn’t come out the first few days. I’m going, I don’t believe this again. I called… Read More
Third day they won’t come up. I did have like one channel there. By God, they got the picture. When one gorilla came out first. As you know, probably more than anybody in this country, then they all came out. It took them about 20 minutes for all of them… Read More
I said, “Oh, I’m sorry, Mr. McConnell. “I don’t blame you, this is obviously not a good idea “I’m having on doing the gorilla thing. Just forget it.” “Why, Jack? This is the coolest thing ever happened to me! “Can I have a copy of that picture? This is unbelievable. Read More
The golden rule that I told you. The golden rule, do unto others. It’s how he built his company. It’s a nonunion steel, incredible, all over the world, the company’s grown to. And he taught me many things, but he’s the one took that money. I took that money, Bill… Read More
I go in there and take my own people. I did have to hire a gunnite company, by the way. It was some guys. They do gunnite around here. It wasn’t the fanciest gunnite, but by golly, it covered those block walls. We built a little pool out of there… Read More
And I said, “I just need some help.” I didn’t ask for a dime. He said, “So what do you wanna do?” I said, “I want to take this elephant.” The old elephant habitat, by the way, had kangaroos in it. I said, “I wanna take the elephant yard.” A… Read More
“I know it will ’cause we have “the world’s first gorilla born here.” See I know about Cola. I knew that when I was first starting my business here in the fifties. he said, “Okay, what’s it gonna take?” I said, “I don’t know, might be 75,000.” I just that… Read More
“If he can’t get out, the gorillas can’t get out. “Outstanding idea! I’m gonna come out there tomorrow. “I’m gonna give you $50,000, “come out there tomorrow.” If you saw the picture in my book, he comes out here. He has a hand-written check from him personally, not even with… Read More
Colo was born here in 19, as I said, ’56, right?… Read More