Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 786
Oh, did he take his arm off or something?… Read More
Oh, did he take his arm off or something?… Read More
Yeah. Huh. “Mai-Lei is 11 1/2. ‘Everybody wants to see the panda, too,’ Bean reports” Oh, Mai-Lan, not Mai-Lei, Mai-Lan. That would be a very different story. Mei-Lan. “Mei-Lan was brought to the zoo by ‘The Daily News’ in 1938. She’s 11 1/2 years old, the longest record for captive… Read More
On Memorial Day, the zoo office was livelier than the monkey house. 29 kids were… They are looking for their mothers or fathers. Bean was asked why people came to zoos. ‘I have no idea,’ he said.” (laughs) I know exactly how he feels. Read More
The panda also is a mean,” I guess, not a she, I’m sorry, “crotchety old man, in spite of his angelic countenance. He looks like a doll but would tear a man apart with two swipes of his powerful claws if he could get out. The heat doesn’t bother the… Read More
Which? The polar bears?… Read More
“The two are now constant pals. The little elephant has gained 370 pounds since she arrived a year ago. She now is a neat 910 pounds and cute as a button, as elephants go. The biggest event at the zoo in many years is scheduled for late this month. Ralph… Read More
‘People spend more time watching bears than any other exhibits,’ says Bean. That was a great exhibit. Read More
Now with crowds back, they show off and beg. The rattlesnakes rattle more when people are around. Mike the chimp, who is 22 years old, puts on shows all the time now. Read More
That name sounds vaguely familiar. Yeah, it does. “Attendance at the Brookfield Zoo this year has increased nearly 100% over last year. This brings joy to the elephants, monkeys, seals, lions, hippos, peacocks, and Robert Bean. Bean, the zoo director, is pleased because it is good business. Crowds are averaging… Read More
Little Baby Brookfield, the two-year-old elephant, got so lonesome without the kids around during the winter they had to give a pony, Dolly, as a companion.” (laughs) A pony?… Read More
Mm-hmm. I dunno, that woulda been something to see, if somebody just pulled a baby orangutan outta their coat and started giving it mouth-to-mouth. Janet, take a look at that. Maybe could read that article. It says some things. Mkay. Read More
Yeah? It must still be, yeah?… Read More
This is from Tuesday, June 8th, 1948, from “The Chicago Daily News.” Do you know Jack Mably?… Read More
I don’t know if he had to buy a ticket or not for Tia, but close to the downtown train station, it started to have a heart attack or something. I don’t remember this. to give it mouth-to-mouth on the train. Musta been quite an ordeal, giving an orangutan, on… Read More
No. Uh-uh. I remember the story because… Yeah, Grandfather had gone to… I don’t know. Was it Sunny… Louis? It may say in this article here. But he went to go pick up these orangutans from another zoo, and he brought them back. I dunno if he brought them back… Read More
But I suppose, if you invest a lot in something like that, it’s… The pair cost 4,500, which does not seem to be so much, really, but I guess, back then, it certainly was. But insuring animals was big business at that time. Read More
You don’t remember any of this?… Read More
What was the other one? Tia?… Read More
There weren’t lots of ’em, but the big-time, like the Hunt brothers- Who were the Hunt brothers?… Read More
They were dealers in wild-animal wildlife of some consequence. They were big-time. They brought in anything and everything. Huh, I guess I’m sort of glad that don’t have that sort of thing going on so much anymore. It doesn’t seem right to just go over there and take that thing… Read More