Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 100
And the director you replaced, did you interact with them?… Read More
And the director you replaced, did you interact with them?… Read More
Yeah, bill Meer. Bill Meer was president of a ZA and he’s the one that gave me the assignment to do the infant diet notebook. And Bill went on to, on to a private place up in the foothills of the Sierras. And, but he had been in the zoo… Read More
What were your priorities in the new position To make it better?… Read More
We had a staff of 10 or 11 animal keepers. We had a staff of two maintenance people. And that was it, I think. Read More
It was fairly modern, a very good collection of reptiles, including a lot of venomous reptiles and then some mishy mhy cages around, had cheetah, had a cheetah yard too. So I mean for a small 12 acre zoo to have cheetah, have, you know, various endangered cats, had great… Read More
12 acres small. Had a nice little administration building and had pretty good animal collection, pretty good animal. It had giraffes, it had elephants, wallaroos Eland with ostrich. Had a nice primate collection. It had chimps in the world’s office. Awful world’s most awful chain link exhibit you could see. Read More
I had my own zoo and I was a zoo director and at 34 years old or whatever. And I, that was pretty cool. Read More
What kind of, who did you find? Sacramento?… Read More
But I also think Steve Graham, where was Steve Graham at the time?… Read More
I don’t know if he was in Detroit, but he was somewhere and he actually, I think he was in Detroit and he thought California would be great. And so he looked into the job. The, the city manager was named Walter Sle. And he had interviewed the job and… Read More
It was a form, you know, what did you feed it?… Read More
I don’t know if it was a plan, but it was a great opportunity. I did a lot with San Francisco. I think that gave me some notoriety. Your former boss, Les Les Fisher and, and people in a ZA wanted to create an infant diet notebook. And I always… Read More
How often did you, it was very simple. And if you had any references that way people, if they had a taper, they could go to that and say, oh, mark Rosenthal always a taper. I could call him and find out more. So it was good. So I was… Read More
So now from San Francisco, you make a bigger move in 1981 to a director position, what prompts you to leave San Francisco?… Read More
Is this part of a plan?… Read More
But setting up that program was sure gen A genius on my part. ’cause I wasn’t, now, occasionally I would do it myself, you know, at Christmas time or something when somebody can, but I had no, those women, mostly women were very good. If they were on vacation or… Read More
So I can’t say enough good things about. And I worked a lot. I mean, Saul and I were friends in the sense, I mean, he was a director. I, he was a great guy and it was nice to have to, he’d invite me to the house for dinner… Read More
And again, working, being in the management team of the zoo society, you had the development people, you had the concessions people, XO yang, he was, you know what he chow taught me one thing, how to count money. You always, you always take your money and you put it… Read More
So I had three shifts of people that would come in to the children’s zoo from, from the start of my start until, until I left. You know, one was like from eight o’clock to 11, one was from noon to four and one was from five to nine at… Read More
I did because there was a nursery. And one of the things that I did, I guess it’s one of the things I’m most proud at about, so I’d inherited this children’s zoo that had goats and things. And then they had a few cages, like of a raccoon. We… Read More