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Yeah, well, I think, wanted more… They wanted to make money, obviously. You don’t go into a venture like that without making money, but I don’t know whatever had become of it, to tell ya the truth. Read More

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Were you able to use your relationships with other zoos to get animals and bring animals there?… Read More

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And being non-AZA at the time, getting permits and whatnot. Read More

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Was this a money-making thing?… Read More

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They hoped to make money?… Read More

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They have the money that the Busch had?… Read More

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No, no, no, (laughs) they didn’t have anywhere near the kinda money. I don’t know what… No, I don’t imagine. Most of it was done by hook or by crook, building exhibits. So there was no board of directors you had to work through. It was just the owners. No,… Read More

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What were some of the challenges of getting the animals, aside from no money?… Read More

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They sought you out to get you to help ’em?… Read More

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Or you heard about it?… Read More

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The whole thing was a cave display. That’s the down under business, cave country in down under Australia. The gal whose husband owned the place was from Australia. And so, she wanted to do something Australian, so I put in bird displays, and we did some marsupials of all sorts. Read More

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And what was that all about?… Read More

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Oh, that was down in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Read More

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It was an Australian theme park. Read More

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You hired him?… Read More

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Mm-hmm. Yeah. Read More

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And when you retired from Louisville, you helped to establish a park, Kentucky Down Under?… Read More

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And who came after you? Do you remember?… Read More

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Yeah, John Walczak. He’s there now. Okay. I hired him. Read More

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You retired from there. Yeah. Read More