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
And when you were at Louisville Zoo, what did you achieve there that you were really proud of?… Read More
No, I didn’t. No, I don’t guess so, but there are those that sort of stuck it on me. I benefited from that relationship. Read More
Oh, I think our education facility that we had. Had been a chimp show, and we turned it into an educational facility. So you were moving away from the animal shows. Yeah. Read More
No, personally, it was… No, I’m just sorry. He’d been sick for quite a while, and of course, I missed him. Read More
Or not? Or just personally?… Read More
It was nice to have somebody that you could point to and say, “I can get some help there.” Did you feel that there was a legacy you wanted to continue?… Read More
Well, not necessarily all around, but no, we did travel a bit. Our map was a six-pack of…… Read More
And that took ya all around the United States?… Read More
It was “between this zoo and that zoo is a 18-pack” (Mark chuckles) or a six-pack. (chuckles) Now, when your father passed away, did that affect you in your involvement in zoos?… Read More
Can you tell me a little about that business venture?… Read More
Well, I just worked with Frank. We’d drive around the countryside, buying up surplus and having a list of who needed what, so that’s what we did. Read More
It was just before I… It was ’74, thereabouts. Now, you mentioned you delivered some antelope to the Houston Zoo. Yeah. Read More
You know the zoo director?… Read More
No, not at the Houston Zoo. No, I was between jobs, and I was working with Frank Thompson. Frank Thompson. Yeah, Frank and I were buying and selling animals. Read More
This was in the ’70s?… Read More
Well, some thought there might be something to it, and some thought I was an old hair-brained bluenose director. No, I don’t know. I did enjoy that because it was thought of by a lotta folks that maybe it really was ivorybill and that I did see an ivorybill, the… Read More
There were some fellows that think they saw it. I don’t know. Read More
(Robert laughs) Well, I was driving; it was down through Alabama, not Alabama, Louisiana; and saw this bird fly across in front of me in the swamps of southern Louisiana. Bird flew across in front of me the way parrot, I mean woodpeckers, fly, and I saw this bird: “My… Read More
What was the reaction when people heard that?… Read More