Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 127
Yeah. Or or Oh absolutely. Are You thinking of other things?… Read More
Yeah. Or or Oh absolutely. Are You thinking of other things?… Read More
So was this by virtue of this building your first priority?… Read More
So really turned the zoo around. We did a lot of other things to turn the zoo around in that time too. But that was a, that was a biggie. And again, had, it wasn’t just me either. We had complete support from the park commission and from my boss,… Read More
Took the crocodile exhibit instead of looking down into a pool, we went down and put glass in front. So you see the things underwater and I mean, so many changes we had in a restaurant to it. There was no elevator. We had an el public elevator to it. Read More
Yeah, quite a bit. The rainforest was gonna change it. I don’t know if I knew that at first. The rainforest changed the whole thing. ’cause it was the first, I shouldn’t say totally, they had some okay exhibit. It was this first modern exhibit. It really had a tight… Read More
And so the, so you’ve seen an old time zoo when you come there?… Read More
You know, the roofs were mostly on it. Long as story short, it took three and a half years to finish. But we made it really an acceptable exhibit. It went from $10 million to like 35 million or something at the time we finished. Read More
I mean, what kind of clothes do you wear?… Read More
Is there restaurants? So what do you do?… Read More
And three and a half years later we were married. So, and she’s from Ohio. And so that, that’s one of the reasons I stayed. And so I got there and, and yeah, there was a lot of, they had started this thing called the rainforest. It looked like it… Read More
This young lady came and sit next to me. So I started a conversation with her and I’m yaking away. Read More
What’s it like? How bad is the snow?… Read More
And then they came a group of ’em, the Sioux Society president, the the Metro Parks director, the commissioner they came to, to Sacramento and interviewed me there and walked around the zoo and saw me interact with staff and stuff. And somehow they decided I was the guy. So… Read More
And I did what I could do really. And I loved it. I loved Sacramento. I would’ve, if we could have done a little bit more expansion, I would’ve probably stayed there forever. I loved the city, I loved who I worked for. And, but it was just a small… Read More
So it’s still a 12 right now. It’s still a 12 acre zoo. But your tenure is shorter. Yeah. And you make that decision to leave because, Well, we weren’t gonna have I, well it was almost a no brainer I’d said, other than the fact that I was a… Read More
We did that about three times. And so that’s when we got a curator. So we were able to add a curator to the staff. So we then had to keepers report to a curator and, and then we were able to, then the society kept growing. ’cause we grew,… Read More
So it was quite an expansion of the staff and we were able to do much more. That’s why the attendance screws and everything else. But then we did a master plan and we probably should have had more of the neighborhood involved around the park and I’m not sure… Read More
So, and we did a lot of smaller things too. We took the, the chain link fence around the flamingos. I know you and I were talking at lunch about little moats they do for, for camels in Europe. But we took down this fence. I just made a mound… Read More
When I, when I left, we also went from 300,000 to 600,000 guests. We, and then I’ll tell you why I moved in a minute. But when we were doing a master plan and all this, what we were able to do, we were able to go to city council… Read More
Could we use half the money to expand the staff?… Read More