He’d just as soon eat you as look at you, and on more than one occasion, he could give people a heart attack ’cause you’d wonder if he was really gonna stop at the fence when he decided to charge including myself one day, but…… Read More
Yes we did. Read More
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I smile because I loved them and hated them. I used to complain bitterly to anybody that would listen to frankly, very little avail that we would spend, in some cases now millions of dollars creating naturalistic exhibits into which we would throw bowling balls and other things. And I… Read More
Is that- We made facilities available. We never had our own research staff. We would make facilities available for visiting researchers and if somebody could prove a legitimate requirement for material from us, we certainly would provide it. We’d do everything we could, but we didn’t have the funding. I… Read More
That continues today?… Read More
As far as I know, yeah. Read More
Did you embrace enrichment programs?… Read More
And before I can go even open my mouth, he says to his wife, “Do you have your checkbook?” And she said, “Yeah.” Then she reaches down in her purse and she pulls out a checkbook like you and I pull out a checkbook. And he says, “Well, write her… Read More
Did they continue to support the display?… Read More
Mm hm. And they, part of all the construction, he’d go out and he’d look at me. To this day I have no idea where they got their money. Everybody would always smile and say, “Oh yeah, it’s their money,” but everybody would smile. So, I have no idea wherever… Read More
As part of what you were doing with the facility, you were doing research at the Living Desert?… Read More
Everything’s got a name. Okay, I can do that. So, we divided the thing up into all these little chunks, all the way down to even the sidewalk. We had done steps to education and for the education sidewalk to pay for the sidewalk, so we sold squares of sidewalk… Read More
So, I had this older couple had come in to see me because they had sent me a $25,000 check out of the blue with no restrictions on it, and I had rung them up and said, “Wow, thank you. Wow, that’s a lot of money,” which it was in… Read More
And so, and we built it. It was two and a half million dollar budget. And it had to come in for that, and I had to raise the money ahead of time and get it all raised. And I got it all raised, and we built it. And like… Read More
Did you have certain donors who stepped forward that you offered the opportunity or was it a hard sell?… Read More
I mean, where’d you get the money from?… Read More
No. Well, it’s always tough to get the money, but I had this little booklet that I had made that I always kept current called the “Wish Book.” And it was just a three ring binder with some pretty pictures. Many of ’em hand drawn since they were wishes. I… Read More
How’d you get the money?… Read More
How was it received?… Read More