Interview 3367 – Caption Index: 524
And plus you can do it even if it’s raining or cold or really hot. Read More
And plus you can do it even if it’s raining or cold or really hot. Read More
I mean, was it just public relations?… Read More
Well, I think that, you know, the thing, the thing that, that we, unlike a number of places where, you know, particularly in a Nebraska summer, and, you know, there, there are zoos that you can go in the summer and, you know, you better have your hiking. You better… Read More
Then that left the main part of the zoo as a, as an open park with hoofstock and, and, you know, pachyderm, elephants rhinos and things that, and in our big walkthrough aviary, cause we’ve got a four acre walkthrough aviary that really aren’t good exhibits in the wintertime anyway. Read More
No. I can’t remember who’s idea that was. Read More
(laughs) Not taking credit for that?… Read More
No. That it made a really good story. Read More
(chuckling) How’d you go about getting people to want to come to the zoo?… Read More
Several of the board said, you can’t do a thing like that. And, but the ones that counted said, okay, good. Stick to it. And yeah, several of them were fairly aghast and said, you just can’t do things like that. And, but we did it. And the guys that… Read More
Not all media is honest, as you well know. Read More
Was it your idea of the weather predicting Siberian tiger?… Read More
Necessary evil?… Read More
Some were, you know, really active pro-zoo supporters that, you know, that we’ve had over the years. Over the years, we’ve had, we’ve had a lot of reporters that we could sit down and let our hair down with and say, okay, I want to go off the record here… Read More
You board supported you?… Read More
So did you special events for them to come?… Read More
Oh, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. Read More
(chuckling) How did you view the media?… Read More
They don’t simply support projects that they don’t really believe in. They got to, they’ve got to really buy on to the project. And so there’s not a, there’s not a lot of gray in Nebraskans. They either like you, or they don’t like you. Now with like you and… Read More
How’d you nurture that relationship?… Read More
Well, I think, yeah, basically by being pretty honest and straightforward. You know, you never want to get, you never want to get absolutely caught in a lie with the media, or, or, you know, and, and it hasn’t always been, you know. I’ve on two different occasions in my… Read More