Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 538
You’ve done it a number of years. Read More
You’ve done it a number of years. Read More
What do ya think makes a good zoo director?… Read More
did ya say, “Yes,” or did you turn him down?… Read More
Well, Mr. Busch, he liked what he liked. He got a train for Busch Gardens, an old-fashioned train. First thing, you had to get that thing in there, install it. And then, he’d wanna take it out and drive it around the veldt with the zebras and whatnot. Certain things… Read More
No, I didn’t turn him down, but I would try to point out to him that it’s not necessarily necessary: “We have enough money for this leg, and we can go from there.” I didn’t want too much money sitting around in the cash register: “Let us have it for… Read More
So when you sat in these meetings with Mr. Busch or the board and he said, “D’ya need more money?… Read More
Trying to think. I don’t think we did. I don’t recall having marine mammals. Read More
I think we had- Or dolphins?… Read More
Yeah, it was a totally different kind of an operation, but yeah, we had some jurisdiction over what was to be displayed or not displayed. I imagine, when you were at Busch Gardens and traveling around, you really had to do a lot of traveling. Yeah. So you musta been… Read More
Yeah, did we…… Read More
Was Busch Gardens involved also in marine mammals?… Read More
(laughs) No, he didn’t push anything like that. He might want you to go ahead and do something like that, but you’d take your time and do it right. You know, he had a farm in St. Louis, Grant’s Farm. Yes. For many moons. Read More
Were there projects you brought him that he just loved and he wanted you to get started on right away?… Read More
Were you responsible for that also?… Read More
Or was he coming to you and saying, “I wanna build Asia. How much d’ya need?” Well, no, we would offer him projects to consider, and he had the gentlemen on his staff that screened all of that stuff. Read More
Was there a project that you gave him that you thought he’d love and he hated?… Read More
Busch Gardens. Tell me that. (laughs) Just Busch Gardens, he just wanted Busch Garden. He used to do things like… He was down there on Good Friday once, and the traffic was unbearable, back and forth down Busch Boulevard. And he said, “What is all that traffic out there?” “Well,… Read More
Now, would you go to him to ask?… Read More
I mean: would you have a project, you’d say, “I wanna bring okapis here,” “I wanna get gorillas here,” “I wanna have hoofstock,” and then, he would come back?… Read More
Busch was the only one that ever tried to get me to take more money. For the various projects. Yeah, he’d always wanna make sure we had enough money to take care of our special projects. Read More