Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 358
Were you able to use your relationships with other zoos to get animals and bring animals there?… Read More
Were you able to use your relationships with other zoos to get animals and bring animals there?… Read More
And being non-AZA at the time, getting permits and whatnot. Read More
Was this a money-making thing?… Read More
They hoped to make money?… Read More
They have the money that the Busch had?… Read More
No, no, no, (laughs) they didn’t have anywhere near the kinda money. I don’t know what… No, I don’t imagine. Most of it was done by hook or by crook, building exhibits. So there was no board of directors you had to work through. It was just the owners. No,… Read More
What were some of the challenges of getting the animals, aside from no money?… Read More
They sought you out to get you to help ’em?… Read More
Or you heard about it?… Read More
The whole thing was a cave display. That’s the down under business, cave country in down under Australia. The gal whose husband owned the place was from Australia. And so, she wanted to do something Australian, so I put in bird displays, and we did some marsupials of all sorts. Read More
Oh, that was down in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Read More
It was an Australian theme park. Read More
And what was that all about?… Read More
And when you retired from Louisville, you helped to establish a park, Kentucky Down Under?… Read More
You hired him?… Read More
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Read More
And who came after you? Do you remember?… Read More
Yeah, John Walczak. He’s there now. Okay. I hired him. Read More
You retired from there. Yeah. Read More
At Louisville. I don’t know. (indistinct) pretty much things that have been done. I don’t know what. We’d put in a new gorilla display and great apes, redid the polar bear exhibits, things that were overdone that didn’t work well, but a lotta things additional, the changing of existing facilities. Read More