“And we had the first gorilla in the world here, “and have more than one, “only one with three generations now.” I said, “That’s good.” I said, “but I can learn real fast about gorillas. “I’ll know more next time you get me up here.” I said, “By the way,… Read More
And they’ll tell you what I said to them. I went back home, two weeks later, “Come back up here with your family.” I said, “Dad, I’m gonna be hired!” I come back with my family. I go down there when the zoo was only that little area along the… Read More
“I love it. I see the potential out here on this lake here.” I said, “This is unbelievable.” They said, “What do you know about, “what’s the difference between a black and white rhino?” I’ll never forget the question as long as I live. Oh man, I tell you what,… Read More
“What’s the difference in a black and white?” I said, “Well, you know what?… Read More
“The black one, I’m sure lives around a lot more mud “than the white one, “and I’m sure it’s a little bit different, “more grayer than,” Oh my God, They sat there like this. I was in, you know, with the black and the nose, the whole thing, didn’t know… Read More
I went there, flew up there, Stan Brock had a little old plane back then, by the way, a little single engine. He said, “Jack. I’ll fly you up there.” Okay. We were buddies. We hadn’t talked to each other in years, but we communicate every once in a while… Read More
“We don’t have a zoo.” I said, “You got a zoo, here it is, “right here’s the address.” He said, “I never seen the animals up there, “but I know there’s a park up there.” Quote, zoo, taxi cab driver. They drive me up here. I look around this place,… Read More
And in that interview, that second one, I said, “You know something, everybody?… Read More
I got all excited because I did my research, because then Columbus looking for a zoo director?… Read More
And they had one of four hospitals treat her cancer in the country. You talk about fate of the good Lord. Read More
You kidding me?… Read More
Then he knows Julie’s got leukemia and cancer, right?… Read More
He says, “Jack, I know you’re there.” By the way, I was selling real estate too in Knoxville. My buddy that had helped me with the plane. He said, “Jack, let me help you keep you afloat here, “do this.” And so he caught me. He’d catch me all the… Read More
Stan Smulowitz sent me a little clipping from the Columbus Dispatch. His sister went to Ohio State. Columbus Zoo, looking for a zoo director. I still, I can’t find the little clipping, newspaper. Read More
So, Knoxville Zoo, they asked you to be, you’re on the board?… Read More
Mhm. At the Knoxville zoo, and . . . We go back there because of Stan Brock. Then our daughter gets very ill. We’re on the board doing all that kind of stuff. Ended up at St. Jude. This is where Columbus comes in, that many people haven’t written. All… Read More
He was going to University of Tennessee. This is back in ’72. So it shows you about friendship. He goes up there. He, we keep stay in touch. He knows I’m back in Knoxville. Read More
Did that get you, just wondering. No, I just, I just helped him film a segment or two, during while I was in the Central Florida Zoo, like I helped him with the anaconda once, and almost took these two fingers off. I knew nothing about snakes. I wasn’t even… Read More
And so I’d help with that a little bit. That’s all I ever did. Now again, I didn’t want to be on TV. I never was on TV. I just helped him take, get his animals and stuff. And then, then he got there, he said, “Jack, you’re a good… Read More
The old four-walling. They called it four-walling. They go into town, they buy all the theaters and show the movie. Well, we were in there two or three times, two or three years too late. And I went in there. I had the theater sold and everything, but no advertising… Read More