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Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 96

What did he teach you that you can remember about the zoo business?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 97

(Robert laughs) Stay out of it. You didn’t listen to him. (laughs) No. No, it could be a very difficult job, very difficult people that you deal with, especially, and fundraising and begging, animals. Read More

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Toward the end of your father’s career at Brookfield Zoo, did you know he was having problems?… Read More

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I guess a mentor of sorts, not necessarily totally mentoring. He didn’t necessarily like, I guess, that I was there watching him, but we had good times together, and he’d always come over and have dinner with us and was always very pleasant. Read More

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Do you think he thought of you as competition to take over from him as he had taken over from his father?… Read More

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What were some of the things that you got from him?… Read More

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No. He didn’t take over from his father. His father died in office. But he succeeded him after. Yeah, right, yeah, he did that. Read More

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Would you say that your relationship with your dad was he was a mentor to you?… Read More

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Or treated you differently?… Read More

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Were you still there?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 87

No, I was in Busch Gardens, I believe. It was in ’63 when he retired. Read More

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When did you decide that you wanted to go off on your own and not be under your father’s wing?… Read More

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You were a keeper there at Brookfield. Yeah, I don’t know that I ever thought of it that way. No, I never thought about disassociating myself with him. I enjoyed him, and you could sneak a bit of knowledge out of him every now and again when he would let… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 84

Ya know, I don’t know that I was ever that enthralled with it or thought that much about it. It was a job, and it was a hard job sometimes, but I enjoyed the people associated with the field and traveling for zoo conferences and whatnot. It was always great… Read More

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And when did that hit ya?… Read More

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Where were you when your father had left the position at Brookfield Zoo?… Read More

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Who was involved in the bringing of it here?… Read More

Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 82

Did you realize, at some time, that you were part, for good or bad, but that you were part of a very famous family that had generation after generation of people associated with the zoo field?… Read More

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I’m not sure who. Read More

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Or do you remember any of that?… Read More

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