I’ll always believe that. I, we’re all the same at the Columbus Zoo today, as we were 35 years ago. Now, when you were director and starting director at Columbus Zoo, you were in this first six months, you’re trying to prove yourself. You know, you were the guy for… Read More
Three years ago, Graham?… Read More
Three years ago, they redid the road out there?… Read More
A guy comes up, gives it, goes nuts up here. The state guy goes, “Who would ever put that thing “in 17 feet in a right-of-way here?” “I don’t know, Jack Hanna must’ve done it.” So then they, I’m not in town. They get me on the phone. Big deal,… Read More
The sign was 17 feet in the right-of-way of that road down there. They come in here. Read More
When did they redo that road?… Read More
All the, all the dung, all this stuff here for years, they were dumping it over here on our beautiful golf course. The number one rated golf course in the state of Ohio, public right now, by the way. But when they went back there to turn it all around… Read More
I never thought somebody go through there and build a dadgum golf course. I got in trouble. Another thing I did. We always did this, we put up our own beautiful sign, a big old red sign. A lady, a $30,000 sign she donated to me. She said, “When do… Read More
“Jack, can you take that place down there, “along the lake there?… Read More
“And there’s nothing back of that thing, “but just storage and garbage around this place.” “Sure, take that thing, put that big old fence around it.” I got the fence donated by Paul Peterson up here, put the cheetahs back there, he started bringing cheetahs like crazy. Read More
Then what do we do with the elephant stuff?… Read More
I wish I could show you the footage. I’ll find it. It’s hidden in the archives here. He had a baby polar bear being born, being raised, and that baby polar bear comes out in the springtime. Read More
And guess what that summer was?… Read More
Over a hundred-and-something thousand people because I listened to Bill Cupps. Somebody that nobody would listen to. The cheetahs, same way. Read More
I listened, not just to my little staff meeting. I couldn’t have all 40 of them, but one guy Paddy Peters married Lois Greene, Paddy’s super was Bill Cupps. Bill didn’t have an education, basically. He’d been here for almost 20-something years. We had the polar bears over there, in… Read More
He said, “Jack, let me take the polar bear. “Let me have a big old piece of pipe from downtown.” One of there big old things that sewers run through. “Let me put that piece of pipe under the earth, “I got a tractor and we’ll go bury it. “We’ll… Read More
He set the thing up. What’s he do?… Read More
One thing I did here, I must say it’s caused the success of the zoo. Read More
You know what I did?… Read More
But back then when I got here for the first 12 years, I knew every single person, every hole, every drain, everything here ’cause I wanted to learn about every little thing so somebody couldn’t tell me that can’t be done. I cannot stand the words can’t, I do not,… Read More