You’ve had many zoos that you’ve worked in, and of all of those zoos, as you look back on your career, what were some of the things that you would consider the high points, the things that made you the proudest?… Read More
What are you planning to do with this facility?… Read More
What is your aim?… Read More
(Robert chuckles) Well, I don’t know. Read More
What skills d’you have to have?… Read More
You better know what you’re doing financially, and it’s be best to know more about the wildlife that you’re gonna be dealing with and promote. Promote the…… Read More
What do ya think makes a good zoo director?… Read More
You’ve done it a number of years. Read More
Again, if I was a young guy coming to ask your advice, what would you say makes a good zoo director?… Read More
No, I didn’t turn him down, but I would try to point out to him that it’s not necessarily necessary: “We have enough money for this leg, and we can go from there.” I didn’t want too much money sitting around in the cash register: “Let us have it for… Read More
did ya say, “Yes,” or did you turn him down?… Read More
Well, Mr. Busch, he liked what he liked. He got a train for Busch Gardens, an old-fashioned train. First thing, you had to get that thing in there, install it. And then, he’d wanna take it out and drive it around the veldt with the zebras and whatnot. Certain things… Read More
I think we had- Or dolphins?… Read More
Trying to think. I don’t think we did. I don’t recall having marine mammals. Read More
So when you sat in these meetings with Mr. Busch or the board and he said, “D’ya need more money?… Read More
Yeah, it was a totally different kind of an operation, but yeah, we had some jurisdiction over what was to be displayed or not displayed. I imagine, when you were at Busch Gardens and traveling around, you really had to do a lot of traveling. Yeah. So you musta been… Read More
Was Busch Gardens involved also in marine mammals?… Read More
Yeah, did we…… Read More
Were there projects you brought him that he just loved and he wanted you to get started on right away?… Read More
(laughs) No, he didn’t push anything like that. He might want you to go ahead and do something like that, but you’d take your time and do it right. You know, he had a farm in St. Louis, Grant’s Farm. Yes. For many moons. Read More