Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 812
No, German. Oh, German. Yeah, Heinz Heck. Oh, very famous zoo family. Yeah. Very famous. Yep. Kind of the European equivalent to the Bean family. Read More
No, German. Oh, German. Yeah, Heinz Heck. Oh, very famous zoo family. Yeah. Very famous. Yep. Kind of the European equivalent to the Bean family. Read More
Did Grandfather have anything to do with that?… Read More
No, well, he brought the talent over here to have him do Brookfield. So it was one of the first zoos here in the States that employed that method. Yeah. Read More
But he was almost the director of the Berlin Zoo, too, wasn’t he, off of that job, Grandfather?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
That’s the Swedish fella, yeah. Read More
do with that, didn’t he?… Read More
That’s before that time period?… Read More
Was it right before the war that he was in Berlin and they were coming up with the concept of moats?… Read More
No, that was before. Read More
Oh, I did some drawing for exhibit signs and things. You designed exhibits. I’ve seen many drawings of- but nothing that really bore fruition. I don’t know. I thought some of them were done… You had one that… You had made really thin long wires or something. This was many… Read More
He was in Berlin right before the war?… Read More
And I think that, then, that was used. I remember a story that Grandfather was in…… Read More
Bob, you had some drawing skills that you used in your professional career as a draftsman for exhibits and things to help?… Read More
I guess. Well, I’m looking at the caricature of the elephant, the drawing. Read More
Is that the deal here?… Read More
Yeah. Today, I get outta the army, on the 29th of April. And that’s your birthday. (laughs) Yeah. All right. Oh, this Dumbo. Wait, is this the Dumbo named after the…… Read More
Did Disney give this or something, this Dumbo elephant?… Read More
What?… Read More
(Janet laughs) Ah, today’s my birthday. Read More