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How’d you think you were gonna get some interest in the zoo?… Read More

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Well, I was probably less than I shoulda been. I hated fundraising with a purple passion. But it was a necessary thing. Yes, usually try to get yourself involved with somebody else to take ’em with ya, somebody else that knows somebody in the crowd to work ’em over. Read More

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And how involved did you get in this fundraising?… Read More

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Did they want you to go out literally and bring back money?… Read More

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What did you learn from these start-ups that you could bring to Brevard?… Read More

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Well, basically, best display methods. Read More

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Well, I think, just to run the place and make sure it’s operating as it should be. Another public place. No. Actually, I can’t even remember whether it was a public or… I think it was more… You know, I don’t know. Can’t remember whether it was… As I say,… Read More

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Wasn’t Busch Gardens. No, no, no, no, I’m trying to remember whether it was… Maybe Brevard County, I guess. And when you were at… You had worked on this Down Under, starting it up, and you had helped Victoria get back up. Read More

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Well, they figured, they see a director: “That’s all he knows anyway.” Well, what did they want when they brought ya in?… Read More

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What were they asking you to accomplish?… Read More

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Did they want you also to raise money?… Read More

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They were having some problems and wanted somebody to help ’em straighten it out, and we put it together. Read More

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Oh yeah, it’s always- They always ask?… Read More

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Oh yeah. Read More

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Mm-hmm. I was only there three years. Why did it appeal to you? What were you… It was a pretty little zoo. Read More

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what’d you wanna try and do?… Read More

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You had to go through an interview process to get the job as director?… Read More

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Yeah, a very small zoo, probably four or five acres (indistinct). Read More

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It was a small zoo?… Read More

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It was a lot of open exhibits, lotta primates and birds. I’m trying to… I have trouble with this. We’re getting so many zoos put in here, I got too many displays. I really should cut back on display here. There you go. I don’t know. Read More