Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 823
Were you at the zoo at this time?… Read More
Were you at the zoo at this time?… Read More
“Mr. Bean,” here it says: “internationally known zoologist and director, his life has been devoted to making zoos an interesting show to visitors and to the care of wild animals.” Were you there? Did you go to that?… Read More
I’m trying to remember. I remember him going there. Read More
Yeah. Oh, I meant to bring it out here. He’s got it at the house. Now, we talked about Marlin being famous, but it looks like your father, Robert Bean, was listed, without Marlin being listed, as one of the top people in Chicago. Yeah, that was… I remember when… Read More
Ha. Who’s Miss Brooks?… Read More
That’s not a small group. Apparently, though, all the outstanding people are men except for two, though. Of course. Read More
When you were at Busch Gardens, did you work with rhino?… Read More
White?… Read More
Yeah. Yeah, you have a great photo of you standing- Standing with two rhinos. Read More
What is that?… Read More
Yeah, probably covered more territory than… They were big circus people, too. Hmm. And here, it looks like you’re working, or Dad was working, with endangered- I remember that, as a kid, “The Weekly Readers” that would come out. This was an article for the… It’s the kids’ magazine that… Read More
Rhino. What kind is that? It’s a white rhino. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Toluca Lake. Yeah, this is 1962, and they said there were fewer of 600 of them at that time, in ’62. But they gained. They gained. Yeah. Read More
I think I remember something about that. I don’t think so. Oh. I know there was a friend of his that was gonna be Hitler’s zoo director. Ooh, that’s not something that…… Read More
American zoo?… Read More
No, German. Oh, German. Yeah, Heinz Heck. Oh, very famous zoo family. Yeah. Very famous. Yep. Kind of the European equivalent to the Bean family. Read More
Did Grandfather have anything to do with that?… Read More
No, well, he brought the talent over here to have him do Brookfield. So it was one of the first zoos here in the States that employed that method. Yeah. Read More
But he was almost the director of the Berlin Zoo, too, wasn’t he, off of that job, Grandfather?… Read More
That’s the Swedish fella, yeah. Read More
Yeah. Read More