Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 259
What were some of the issues you had to deal with at Louisville?… Read More
What were some of the issues you had to deal with at Louisville?… Read More
You know, I’m not sure where he was. I don’t know. No, I never answered to him, and he never answered to me. Read More
Or he had left?… Read More
Did you have a house on the grounds when you went to Louisville?… Read More
And you said his wife kinda ran the zoo?… Read More
Yeah, well, she told him what days close the zoo and what days to open it and what to do with this or that. Yeah, she bossed him. Read More
Was he still there when you came to the zoo?… Read More
(Robert laughs) All I know is… I’m trying to think of… Ivo used to have… He raised tayras. You know what tayra is. I don’t know what he… But his wife loved the tayras, and she had ’em running around the house, but they were driving Ivo crazy because he’d… Read More
Any Ivo stories you wanna tell me?… Read More
No, Ivo Poglyan was there, Ivo and his wife. Read More
Did you know them before you got there?… Read More
Yeah, he was known in the zoo field. Read More
I lost my mind. (chuckles) (Mark chuckles) To go to Louisville?… Read More
Was that again- No, Louisville was a wonderful place, and I don’t really know how I got involved in Louisville. Read More
You weren’t the first director?… Read More
Then Busch Gardens, you left them, and you went on to the Louisville Zoo?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
And how did you make that decision to go from Busch Gardens, where you had all of this money and all of this responsibility?… Read More
Well, alligators and crocodile, mostly alligators, but no, it was just capturing them, getting them, ’cause they’re a very powerful animal, actually, but the capture. Then we brought them up to Tampa. Put ’em in our lakes and ponds there to control the aquatic grasses and things. You musta been… Read More
What’d you have to be aware of?… Read More