Interview 40106 – Caption Index: 64
And I felt good about it. You know, they relied on me, they listened to me and they made a decision based on my input. So that was rewarding. Read More
And I felt good about it. You know, they relied on me, they listened to me and they made a decision based on my input. So that was rewarding. Read More
And were you starting to form a philosophy about zoos or had you already developed it?… Read More
So it was a great job. And I remember Don Bridgewater and Bill and also wore an iff, were up there one day and the red panda had a baby they had given birth and was carrying the baby in the cage. And by that time I had watched enough… Read More
And then when everything had settled after that, we’d go back down and continue to work. That’s one story I remember from, from there. But the other thing was that they had all these neat animals. They had Selena, dons and 10 and Paass. They had Paass, they had large,… Read More
Well, Ted Reid was the director. Bill Zin was working there at the time. I got to know Bill early on. Don Bridgewater was there. And so I got to know those guys. And working in the basement of the Lion House, everybody at 10 o’clock would get the hell… Read More
What were your first impressions and who was the director of the zoo at the time and do you remember any of the curators that were there?… Read More
What kinda zoo, when you were doing this part-time work, what kind of zoo did you find at this national zoo?… Read More
So the summer of 67 I worked as a specimen preparator at the National Museum. And Eisenberg got me that job through Charles Ley, who was a curator at the museum Connections. The second year they had temporary positions for keepers. So I worked in the collection, the basement of… Read More
He said, well what happened to him? He’s gone now. And I looked, said, I don’t know. He said, we better check the garbage. And we checked the garbage and I had rolled Whitey up in a piece of newspaper and thrown him in the garbage. I shouldn’t tell that… Read More
And, but they were too drunk to stop eating it. So they ate the whole damn thing. We, you know, two big chunks of that stuff. We cooked it up and everybody ate it up with the French garden. They were happy campers. And they had a story to tell… Read More
And I said to Dave, shall we get out the the meat?… Read More
He said, yeah. So they got this skillet going on the stove and he started frying the stuff and pretty soon everybody’s smelling this meat that’s cooking, you know, and they’re coming in the kitchen and everything and reno’s slicing up the french bread and we’re putting big slabs of… Read More
And we had a fuel trip up to the Sierra Nevadas to this guy’s a-frame cabin. His father was a medical doctor and they had an A-frame up in the Sierras. I told Dave Englund who went to Mexico with me, I said, let’s bring the whale meet up there… Read More
I said these thing, this animal was killed with a bullet. It didn’t just wash up on the beach. I said, I’d, I’m, I’d like to take a piece of this home and put it in the freezer. And she said, you’re right. She said, I’m going to take some… Read More
And the specimen went to the academy and Dr or told Jackie Shoal, call up Chris and see if he wants to flesh this thing out. I’ll pay him a hundred dollars if he does it. So it was maybe my, me first semester as an undergraduate, but I said,… Read More
And Kerry Baldwin knew that he was a wino. So when he came back and he reported that the wild dogs are running all over this zoo at night, Baldwin figured, okay, I’ll take care of it. And just forgot about it because he figured he’s a drunkard and you… Read More
So the wild dogs couldn’t get out anymore. But there were things like that that were happening all the time that I was learning about. For example, the saga antelope would run, would get spooked and run against the fence and bash their brains out and they would end up… Read More
I, ’cause he wanted to buy a dissecting scope for looking at insects. And so he had a goal. My father always gave me enough money, I had a credit card to drive the car around. And he bought my first, he bought my first three cars before I went… Read More
It was a huge storage area for pay for hay. And it was above, it was like the first story level, so you had to go up the stairs to get in there and was absolutely filled with a little brown bats in the evenings. It was a night roost. Read More
What kind of zoo did you find there and who was the director?… Read More