No, very, very few animal dealers, like the Frank Thompsons, so very few of them now, and again, as you said, Janet, publicity was a lot more… They really worked at it then, to this kind of photo that got press for the zoo. They don’t do that anymore. No,… Read More
What year you think this was?… Read More
No. (scoffs) “Yeah. No.” Was it before your…… Read More
I don’t know. I don’t know when it is. You bought it from a New York animal dealer. The price depends on the length, so you buy it by the foot. Yeah, that’s something, d’you know, I wonder, all these animal dealers, ’cause they were big at collecting. Dealers are… Read More
(laughs) Yeah. You tie a goat up to a post. And then, around that post, you would- Two posts. You have a post here and then a ring of posts around it that were separated wide enough for the snake to get in, but once it at the goat or… Read More
D’you remember when that anaconda came?… Read More
Mm. And to blow it out was the hardest thing ever. To blow out the yolk of an ostrich is not easy. And I took it into school the next day, and some kids had it, and they broke it. And I was so scared, and you were so mad. Read More
This is the anaconda. Yeah, big one. I remember Grandfather telling Mom about the methods for catching large snakes. Oh, yeah. Read More
Tying a goat up to a post?… Read More
Were you allowed to bring animals to school?… Read More
Remember that big drill?… Read More
Yeah, my dad would bring ’em in. I didn’t do it. My father’d bring it in during the middle of the day for the show-and-tell. I remember we had an ostrich-egg omelet for dinner that night, ’cause we had to blow out the ostrich egg. Read More
Yeah. Beautiful old house. Yeah, unfortunately, it’s no longer there. Yeah, I remember, when we were kids, you would sometimes bring home baby… Oh, lions, tigers. and we’d have to feed ’em with bottles. I was always the most popular kid at show-and-tell day (Robert laughs) Yeah. Yeah. Read More
In the zoo?… Read More
In Brookfield. It’s right in the zoo. Read More
That was the alarm?… Read More
Where was this house?… Read More
Yeah, “where’s my breakfast?” (Janet laughs) And you had to get on the table. Read More
But she used to… I think I told you a little while ago about her ritual. Well, every morning, when I’d have to go down, first thing I’d do is open up her cage, or his cage. And he’d come running out, and in front of the kitchen stove, there… Read More
Well, she ate the same thing every day, for the most part. Well, she ate pancakes, obviously. Yeah. Read More