Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 347
It was an Australian theme park. Read More
It was an Australian theme park. Read More
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Read More
You hired him?… Read More
And when you retired from Louisville, you helped to establish a park, Kentucky Down Under?… Read More
You retired from there. Yeah. Read More
Yeah, John Walczak. He’s there now. Okay. I hired him. Read More
And who came after you? Do you remember?… Read More
Mkay, and what would you have liked to have accomplished that you weren’t able at Louisville?… Read More
At Louisville. I don’t know. (indistinct) pretty much things that have been done. I don’t know what. We’d put in a new gorilla display and great apes, redid the polar bear exhibits, things that were overdone that didn’t work well, but a lotta things additional, the changing of existing facilities. Read More
No, I didn’t. No, I don’t guess so, but there are those that sort of stuck it on me. I benefited from that relationship. Read More
Oh, I think our education facility that we had. Had been a chimp show, and we turned it into an educational facility. So you were moving away from the animal shows. Yeah. Read More
And when you were at Louisville Zoo, what did you achieve there that you were really proud of?… Read More
No, personally, it was… No, I’m just sorry. He’d been sick for quite a while, and of course, I missed him. Read More
It was nice to have somebody that you could point to and say, “I can get some help there.” Did you feel that there was a legacy you wanted to continue?… Read More
Or not? Or just personally?… Read More
It was “between this zoo and that zoo is a 18-pack” (Mark chuckles) or a six-pack. (chuckles) Now, when your father passed away, did that affect you in your involvement in zoos?… Read More
Well, not necessarily all around, but no, we did travel a bit. Our map was a six-pack of…… Read More
And that took ya all around the United States?… Read More
Can you tell me a little about that business venture?… Read More
Well, I just worked with Frank. We’d drive around the countryside, buying up surplus and having a list of who needed what, so that’s what we did. Read More