Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 160
He died, and his wife is still running the zoo, the service. Read More
He died, and his wife is still running the zoo, the service. 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
It had a hell of a good collection. There was a situation where they kept a lot of stock. They were breeding for private people. These people were all on the board or something similar to being on the board of the zoo. I liked what I saw. I didn’t… Read More
Do you know anybody in H.H.?… Read More
I wasn’t disappointed when the job went to somebody else. But if you are close to getting a job, your present job becomes, maybe you look at everything’s bad about it, and I fell victim to myself. On the other hand, I knew that I, I knew that I knew… Read More
I wasn’t quite at the stage where you reached up that far. (chuckles) Okay. Okay. Read More
Yes, I was. I guess I was like the director, one of. One of a number of directors. Not right off the bat, but in the first couple of years, I moved up steadily. Now at some point you’re working at the Evansville Zoo, but you decide, or you leave… Read More
Were you involved in the AAZPA as director now that you were a director?… Read More
Do you remember any of the advice that, some good advice that maybe one or two of them may have given you?… Read More
And did you have a relationship with Marlin Perkins?… Read More
No, and I wouldn’t name any of them because I might leave somebody out, but I got good advice from damn near everybody I asked of. Read More
And did any of those other zoo directors influence you, give you advice, or interact with you in a meaningful way?… Read More
Gary Clark hired me as, I don’t know what you would call me. He hired me. I went out on a weekend, out to Topeka, and looked at the Topeka Zoo and looked at his problems, and told him what I would do. He did some of it. Some of… Read More
Oh, yes. Read More
I took a few days off, flew down to Fort Worth, we sold the house, loaded up and got back. While we were gone, a banker, today still I don’t know his name, but he said, “My bank has that house on our list of properties. How would you like… Read More
A lot had changed. Read More
Now you were working with, now as a zoo director, you were interacting with other zoo directors?… Read More
What animal exhibits were you able to kind of put together?… Read More
We had a flock of dogs. I’m not at all sure they were purebred dingoes, but they were labeled as such. We got that exhibit straightened out, got oddball animals out of there and just got the exhibit straightened out. And once and for all, we stopped selling dingo puppies… Read More
We took that sign down and changed the elephant cage. We straightened up a lot of cages and what they exhibited, and the labels on the cages were just terrible. Fortunately, not too many people had been injured by animals, but where they were, they had a label on it… Read More