Because they had people showing up in Riverbank, South Carolina with Royal Zoo memberships, getting in reciprocal, getting in free. And there were actually two websites, one of which the town knew about that was selling Royal Zoo memberships and another, which the town didn’t know about, that looked the… Read More
So I treated a lot of circus animals, worked on, you know, the, the Clauser bears and Willie Kugler’s chimps and Kirby chimps, and even did some work with Gunther Gable Williams, a lot of his animals, but I also did a fair amount of work in transporting animals, both… Read More
Could you stop by and pick it up and bring it with you?… Read More
And I said, sure, why not?… Read More
And when we got, when we got a computer system backed up and running, so we could actually, and started taking zip codes again, we found out that an awful lot of those people that were buying that membership actually lived in Omaha. And the Royals Zoo, you know, which… Read More
And we, all we could do is get our teeth for a year. And yeah, this is a town that is say 150,000, 150 people in the whole town. You know, you put the whole zoo in this room and they skinned us alive. The guy also skinned the town… Read More
I got a call from Riverbanks that said, where is this Royal Zoo?… Read More
No. (laughs) Sorry about that. One other question. (laughs) And then if there’s anything we haven’t covered, you’ll say something. No, I think we’ve (mumbles). What was your, you talked about relationships and so forth. Read More
What was your relationship to the Royal Zoo?… Read More
What happened to the relationship?… Read More
(laughs) Well, the, you know, the, the Royal Zoo saga, I guess, or whatever you want to call it. We were always big believers in actually, if, if you might recall, I got up in front of, and kind of rather pointedly and loudly argued in favor of, you know,… Read More
But it made us a fair amount of money in the beginning. And then as IMAX have done all over the world, they, you know, the attendance tapered off, partly because the, the guys that were producing the IMAX film and the IMAX corporation were not terribly user-friendly and they… Read More
I don’t have any other questions. Read More
Did you ask about the Royal Zoo?… Read More
We do. Read More
How did you decide to develop that?… Read More
Well, that one was, that was one of them that, that actually, you know, that wasn’t one of my ideas. That was a chairman of the board saw an IMAX, liked it, got a, you know. We went to see the IMAX in, at the Sony Center in New York. Read More
The timing was, the timing was right at the point where IMAX, where IMAX theaters were really at their peak in their cusp. And, you know, they, they were really, really, really generating a lot of, a lot of income and a lot of excitement. Actually, you know, we put… Read More
I don’t know. Yeah, we, well, I think we get, we, we do well. I mean, statistically speaking, we say it’s for the kids, but statistically speaking, you know, we’re assuming that anybody 12 and over as an adult, we have a lot more adults come than kids. And I… Read More
Turns out it was since it was used, it was relatively inexpensive and it’s made a huge amount of money for us because we get really great ridership. Plus it’s fun. It goes right across the top of the giraffe, across the ostriches, cheetahs, rhinos, across the, it crosses the… Read More