I drove all night. My wife and I got back in Bradenton. I got a flight to New York, slept on the plane going up, the boat was in, and I got there. Got the elephants partially unloaded. I was waiting for Harry Overbaugh. Harry is a special character, special… Read More
New York?… Read More
All right, they came in, the shipment came in to New York from Holland. I don’t know why, but I was in Jackson, Mississippi. God only knows why at that point. But I got a phone call in Jackson saying the boat is landing in Providence, Rhode Island or. Read More
How are we going to get ’em there? (laughing) How did you get ’em there?… Read More
What were some of the things you had to think about?… Read More
Sure, sure. Read More
Were there a lot of logistics involved in bringing that kind of shipment?… Read More
So you were dealing with elephants that were coming from van den Brink. Yes. Yes, to Canada, to the West Coast. That’s a totally different, different matter. Read More
I quoted a price and he said, “Let’s see. Let’s see now. What else do we want?” And he went down the list. I walked out of his office with a signed order for an incredible amount of money. It was 15 something. And I don’t remember precisely how much,… Read More
After I left the zoo in Evansville and came down here, I didn’t sell anything for six or eight months, six months, I would say. I made a trip to California and had an appointment with a guy who was involved in building the next Lion Country Safari out there. Read More
Some names that I remember are the Fred Zeehandelaar, Charles Chase, International Animal Exchange. I mean- International Animal Exchange was a serious competitor. Did far more more business than I did. Bill Chase was a competitor, certainly, but a fairly good, honest competitor. The people in Michigan, animal dealers, were… Read More
You were gonna tell me the wallaby story. I’ve forgotten what I was gonna show you. But we’ll get back. We’ll get back. Read More
When you were dealing with, did you have dealings with other animal dealers at the time?… Read More
Or were there any, or was it your knowledge and knowing all the zoo people that you could do things?… Read More
Not knowing zoo people. I had become acquainted with a number of suppliers, and I’d become acquainted with the mechanism by which you find the suppliers. There was a good sale for wallabies, not full-sized kangaroos. Wallabies. Little guys. And you couldn’t export ’em from Australia anymore. But I looked… Read More
Well, this was an example of something I did a lot of. These animals were looked at with a great deal of not lovability by the people and New Zealand. That paper tells another story that might be, might be useful. We’ll get back to that. Did you specialize in… Read More
You decided after you left Evansville that buying and selling animals, which you knew about, might be a good business for you?… Read More
Yes, yes. Obviously. Read More
And what were some of the, in this new business, what were some of the problems that you had to deal with or limitations in buying and selling?… Read More
So you decided that your knowledge of buying and selling animals might be, instead of running the zoo, might be a good business?… Read More