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And you know, it’s just kind of chants sometimes, sometimes targeted as far as asking people, how does this work?… Read More

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I remember you probably remember Ed CRA from Brookfield, and so he was probably one of the most important people when it came to visiting him and like, how do you do this?… Read More

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And what’s your experience with that?… Read More

Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 125

I remember him telling me, when you get down to stainless steel, the contractor’s gonna tell you 3 0 4 grade stainless. He goes, don’t take that 3 0 4, it’s no good. You gotta go three 16. I’m like, I knew nothing about that. He says, come here, I’m… Read More

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So depending on the average adult length of, say a beluga whale, that would dictate how big that diameter had to be. You had to be able to inscribe a circle that big within the outline of the exhibit. So you had to meet that lowest can comment denominator volume… Read More

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Well there, initially it was to do library research on surveys of the marine mammals, primarily at this time the beluga whales and a white sided dolphins, because part of the permit application had you define the size of the population from which you hoped to take the animals. So… Read More

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And what were your new responsibilities?… Read More

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How did you get the job? Did you have to interview?… Read More

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And so I told him I was interested and I applied and there wasn’t really a, an in-depth interview process, it was, I was actually assigned acting curator. And so Breaker would tell me PR primarily start researching these animals and what’s required for the permit applications. I was responsible… Read More

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Yeah, it was a new position because we used to have a little auditorium and I remember Bill Breaker calling the staff into this little auditorium. I think our, the entire entire aquarium staff might have been 75 people. And he announced that after years of wrangling with the board… Read More

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Yeah. So you are promoted. Did you, did someone retire?… Read More

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We were the guys that had to go and take care of it because we had the most people and we had the, the numbers of strong guys type of thing. So yeah, nothing really obvious, real glaring. One disappointing thing, I remember I was actually, this is predates my… Read More

Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 112

So it didn’t seem to hurt the animal. But get up there and nears is like six foot animal kind of slithering down the floor and like, oh my god, you know, like hopefully it’s gonna live type of thing. Read More

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We ended up just scooping it up with a long, what do you call it?… Read More

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Transport, not a net, but a stretcher and getting it into the aquarium and then what we call wa walking it, which meant put its mouth at a water ette to force water over its gills and bathe the gills and get ’em back to to speed. It was an… Read More

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During this time as the assistant curator, any memorable events?… Read More

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I assume animals didn’t escape in an aquarium, but any VIP visits or things that were unique, I remember touring around LE’s wife one time found out she doesn’t speak a word of English, so that was kind of like pointing and showing this and that. But I’m like, oh… Read More

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When we’re looking at increasing the exhibitry or bringing in new animals or whatever the nice thing it was, there was always a good receptivity to new ideas. There was never a situation where you’d be like, oh, come on, that’s not gonna work. You know, I was like, well,… Read More

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So other than, like I say in-House, nobody really helped you to mentor me As an assistant curator, how did you affect the development of the sections of the aquarium you were responsible for?… Read More

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But I’ve always loved learning and I still do. And it’s, to me, it’s like, don’t be the big shop, know it all type of guy. Be receptive to other people’s input and you know, take it with a grain of salt if that’s what it’s worth. Or, you know,… Read More

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