Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 816
When you were at Busch Gardens, did you work with rhino?… Read More
When you were at Busch Gardens, did you work with rhino?… Read More
White?… Read More
Yeah. Yeah, you have a great photo of you standing- Standing with two rhinos. Read More
What is that?… Read More
Rhino. What kind is that? It’s a white rhino. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Toluca Lake. Yeah, this is 1962, and they said there were fewer of 600 of them at that time, in ’62. But they gained. They gained. Yeah. Read More
Yeah, probably covered more territory than… They were big circus people, too. Hmm. And here, it looks like you’re working, or Dad was working, with endangered- I remember that, as a kid, “The Weekly Readers” that would come out. This was an article for the… It’s the kids’ magazine that… 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
American zoo?… Read More
I think I remember something about that. I don’t think so. Oh. I know there was a friend of his that was gonna be Hitler’s zoo director. Ooh, that’s not something that…… Read More
But he was almost the director of the Berlin Zoo, too, wasn’t he, off of that job, Grandfather?… 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
do with that, didn’t he?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
That’s the Swedish fella, yeah. Read More
No, that was before. 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
That’s before that time period?… 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
And I think that, then, that was used. I remember a story that Grandfather was in…… Read More