Chico? The River Dolphin was very unique. He was at the end of Gallery five, and it would’ve been probably about 20,000 gallons of water. We also had a, my gallery, this large alligator snapping turtle, which they’re not found as far north as Chicago, but they, they’re found in… Read More
Yeah. Pretty much only men in the fish’s department. And I would guess, I don’t know, 10 people, something like that. There were six galleries and there were six people responsible for the galleries, and then two guys responsible for the tributaries. Former balanced from the small Asian motif area. Read More
When we started building special exhibits with live animals, we had a, a team of aqua that had to facilitate the care and the setting up of the fishes environments. So that was probably, I’d say probably six people and special exhibits alone. So. Read More
And was there any exper, well the other question, were there any special animals at that time that were unique?… Read More
And this, the workforce when you started was five people, 25 people, only men?… Read More
And he enjoyed sitting at our company and he knew the scientific names as well as we did. He was very proud of that. And so I kind of got to know him first at that level where we could just sit and chat. But it was always like, oh,… Read More
But it wasn’t until I became curator of marine mammals that I got to sit at the big table. Read More
I’ve been looking all around behind the scenes, I can’t find one Aquarius. I’m like, I’m not sure. I mean, they must be behind the scenes. They’re working somewhere. Maybe they’re in a meeting, goes, geez, you know, make sure those people do their jobs. So as an Aquarius, as… Read More
I remember if Bill Breaker ran into me one time, and I think it was assistant curator, he’s like, where’s everybody?… Read More
It’s like, only when you’re in trouble. Read More
Aquarius, did you have contact with the director and at that senior level or not?… Read More
And he come down to Jim Robinette, oh, he’s not here. Ha ha ha. I’m like, funny guy. He was a nice guy. Not overly knowledgeable. I mean, I, I think he may have come in through our janitorial staff. So, you know, as far as knowledge about keeping animals… Read More
It’s like, we never even did that when I started. And now it’s an actual full-time job with a staff of, I bet probably half dozen people. It’s a big part of their operations. So it was, it’s much simpler back then. I also remember on the mezzanine level, we… Read More
And about the curator was Assistant director?… Read More
Yeah. Of the whole aquarium. And then the director of the aquarium now referred to as a president slash ceo Who was the assistant director when you started Lou Reimers. Lou Reimers often seen with a cigar in his mouth in his office. He was there forever. I’m not sure… Read More
You had a boss that was the curator and then they had, what was the starting structure?… Read More
Very simple. There was a curator and then the assistant creator curator was kind of that in responsibility only. Didn’t really have that term. Matter of fact, the guy that was the assistant curator was a man in charge of the coral reef tank in the diving program. So, but… Read More
So What was the structure of the staff?… Read More
And the effectively assistant curator came up to me, he’s like, what are you doing out here?… Read More
He loved it and he realized that I got a lot to share and he was very much into that whole aspect of the job. Read More