And it would, the wolves were the other choice. And there was, this guy had this great sense of humor and we chose the anteaters. And it was, and it still is a mascot to this day. And so it was fun. It was fun to be there The first… Read More
So I think I listed Irvine first, Santa Barbara, and then maybe UCLA, I don’t know. But anyway, I got into uc, Irvine and it was the first four year class. There were 13, there was, yeah, 1300 of us, 500 lived in the dorm. And it was a brand… Read More
And so I went there and now it’s 35,000 or 40,000. It’s a beautiful campus and it was the sixties, so it was a weird time. But sometime we got to do some things like we got to find a mascot. And again, it was the sixties so we had… Read More
Which ones first?… Read More
I had degree, I went to, I went to uc, Irvine for a couple of reasons. We always took our vacations in Newport Beach Balboa. And so that area I knew well and I liked it. And the new university, university of California, Irvine was gonna be open in 65. Read More
What kind of schooling did you have then?… Read More
So I know I probably in high school, probably in high school, I thought, well, I’ll be a biology teacher. And then I realized I really didn’t wanna do that. And so from then on in college, I really felt that I’d, I could be a, I’d wanted to work… Read More
Yes, I really, I started reading about zoos probably in junior high. And I started read, the first one was a zoo in my luggage by Gerald Durrell. And, but that, and then I read all his books, you know, and that got me very much interested in zoos. So,… Read More
And what zoos did you see when you were growing up?… Read More
Did, what impressions did they have on you?… Read More
A lot. I think now we only had Griffith Park Zoo. It wasn’t in the new location, you know, it was in a different location and I think I, I know I went there once with my two sisters, treated me like their child. They took me everywhere with their… Read More
And we held up our bags, no, just insects. And he just laughed and ran away. So, so animals had always been part of my life. Yeah. Read More
Had a horn towed that I got on one rare visit to the dentist, to the desert as well as a myrtle la turtle, a desert tortoise in there. So I had these, these animals. And in the house I had a hamster and parakeet, a fish, fish bowl, you… Read More
So my friend Alan Smith and I were looking through the fields through stuff and this policeman came up and said, are you kids looking for trouble?… Read More
Yes. From the very, I don’t know what got me interested in animals. My father was sort of like an engineer. My brother was an engineer. My two sisters did, did some work, but were basically housewives and, but I always had an interest in animals. We had a cat… Read More
Who were animals part of your life?… Read More
She, my father was pretty domineering. He gave her $40 probably for her entire, their entire life to buy groceries every week. And she actually saved some of that money. I remember the groceries then. And she remember you had your milkman, you had your, your ve Tommy, the vegetable… Read More
And you know, but she did the typical thing. She made dinner every night and, and it was a typical housewife. And we lived in Inglewood, California in a nice little house and basically leave it to Beaver neighborhood, you know, and paid hide and seek with the kids and… Read More
But anyway, she secretly, she secretly took driving lessons, which got the neighbors gossiping because they thought she was having an affair with somebody. But she took her stop, did, took driving lessons. Then in 1956 she went by herself to Ira Escobar Ford dealer and bought her own car. Read More
My father Raymond M. Taylor. I have an older brother, Raymond M. Taylor Jr. And my mother was Ardath Taylor. And my father very, actually he was a very smart man, but grew up in Philadelphia, as did my mother. My father, never grad, never went to high school and… Read More