I was able to get my ideas across. They weren’t very complicated, and they were fairly simple, and they accepted. The people in charge accepted what I did. I started a magazine. They’d never had a publication before. We had a monthly magazine that we publish every month. You had… Read More
I agree. Read More
Three actually. Three public zoos. Three. Three, right. Or four, sorry. Four private zoos. Catskill. I’m sorry, Roland, you’re correct. (Connie chuckling) The zoo in Evansville, Indiana. Read More
What do you think, well, why did you think that was the most important?… Read More
you accomplished the most?… Read More
You had help the second time, didn’t you?… Read More
Yes. You did learn your lesson. (chuckling) I learned rapidly. I was gonna go to some general questions now. Of the two zoos that you worked at- Three. Read More
What’s her name?… Read More
And I’ll see you around. Read More
We have to call her and thank her for this- The nameless rescuer. Yeah, thank goodness. Yeah, the snakes are very effective. We got her in her box. The next night I did the same thing again, and she didn’t strike again. Wait a minute. Read More
And I was putting the snakes away one night, and I was in a hurry. Instead of waiting for the ticket seller to close down his operation and come in and help me get the 18 footer in her box for the night, I tried to do it myself. It… Read More
He said he had just two left inside. I’m going in to help him. And they begged him to see those two, and he let them in. I remember hearing the girl scream, (laughing) as she look over the wall. Thank goodness. in pretty bad shape on the floor, but… Read More
I was grabbing her head, but she started squeezing, and she got my arms down to my side and squeezed. It was closing time. We were closing for the night, and I was dependent on the ticket seller to finish counting his tickets and doing his work, and coming in… Read More
Of course, they were quite different (chuckling) in our day, in our day than you see today. It makes me laugh about Papa. He was so discouraged when they stopped wearing tights. (chuckling) And that was a long time ago, girls come out without tights. But on some things like… Read More
I was there when the band leader forgot the music. (Connie laughing) No, but there’s one story about snakes. I’ve been a snake lover since I was a little kid, and I had a job before my circus days. I worked for a man that had a show that people… Read More
Frank, do you have any when I was there story?… Read More
Did you make them?… Read More
but my mother did. Read More
Did she design them?… Read More
And on another circus that I was on with my family, Jimmy Cole, I believe it was Jimmy Cole Circus, I rode, what was the elephant’s name?… Read More