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(Robert chuckles) So how long d’you think they lived together?… Read More

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Mm-hmm. He was a wild man. He also had his own little animal park. He was a bit of a redneck wild guy. Oh yeah, he was. (Janet laughs) Probably still is. On the Ozarks, we would go out there to visit him. We owned property there. Read More

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Yes, we did. We’d go visit him, and he was something else. (Robert laughs) I was young, but I still knew that much. Read More

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(staffer speaks indistinctly) That’s not Baby, is it?… Read More

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No?… Read More

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No, very, very few animal dealers, like the Frank Thompsons, so very few of them now, and again, as you said, Janet, publicity was a lot more… They really worked at it then, to this kind of photo that got press for the zoo. They don’t do that anymore. No,… Read More

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Earl Tatum, was he a animal dealer?… Read More

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No. (scoffs) “Yeah. No.” Was it before your…… Read More

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I don’t know. I don’t know when it is. You bought it from a New York animal dealer. The price depends on the length, so you buy it by the foot. Yeah, that’s something, d’you know, I wonder, all these animal dealers, ’cause they were big at collecting. Dealers are… Read More

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What year you think this was?… Read More

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(laughs) Yeah. You tie a goat up to a post. And then, around that post, you would- Two posts. You have a post here and then a ring of posts around it that were separated wide enough for the snake to get in, but once it at the goat or… Read More

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D’you remember when that anaconda came?… Read More

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Mm. And to blow it out was the hardest thing ever. To blow out the yolk of an ostrich is not easy. And I took it into school the next day, and some kids had it, and they broke it. And I was so scared, and you were so mad. Read More

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This is the anaconda. Yeah, big one. I remember Grandfather telling Mom about the methods for catching large snakes. Oh, yeah. Read More

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Tying a goat up to a post?… Read More

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Remember that big drill?… Read More

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Yeah, my dad would bring ’em in. I didn’t do it. My father’d bring it in during the middle of the day for the show-and-tell. I remember we had an ostrich-egg omelet for dinner that night, ’cause we had to blow out the ostrich egg. Read More

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Were you allowed to bring animals to school?… Read More

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In the zoo?… Read More

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In Brookfield. It’s right in the zoo. Read More