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Okay, and did you stay long, then?… Read More

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No, I wasn’t there all that long. Read More

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When you were at Busch Gardens, what did ya start as there?… Read More

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Well, they didn’t have… Titles didn’t seem to exist all that much. I was assistant director, I guess. Rich Naegeli was my boss, and that was it. And I had a number of other keepers and the likes under me, but I don’t think I ever had an official title. Read More

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This was the first time you were there as kind of an assistant to the director?… Read More

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Oh, everywhere I went was another kid. (laughs) And why’d you decide to leave Jimmy Morgan?… Read More

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Busch Gardens. Yeah, I went Busch Gardens. That was my second trip, I believe, to Busch Gardens. So you went down to Busch Gardens from Jimmy Morgan. Yeah. Read More

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And where’d you go from Jimmy Morgan Zoo?… Read More

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Four years was I there?… Read More

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Yeah, at least that. Trying to think of how my… Base everything on my kids. Read More

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And how long’d ya stay at the zoo?… Read More

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About a couple of years?… Read More

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Oh yeah, he was… You know, Bob was a nudist. Right. And he loved to take the girl out on nudist camping trips. I don’t know how he got away with it, to tell ya the truth. Different day. Yeah, different day. So you were the assistant director at the… Read More

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Good director to you?… Read More

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And what kind of director was Bob Truett?… Read More

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What kinda zoo do you remember Birmingham being when you got there?… Read More

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Well, it was a nice little zoo. They had a number of projects. It was not necessarily the most modern zoo. (Robert laughs) My first official office was the… Because of segregation, we had restrooms for white people and restrooms for Black people. And then, there were white ladies’ and… Read More

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And so, I got one of them, and they got the other one. Read More