Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 162
Oh, everywhere I went was another kid. (laughs) And why’d you decide to leave Jimmy Morgan?… Read More
Oh, everywhere I went was another kid. (laughs) And why’d you decide to leave Jimmy Morgan?… Read More
And where’d you go from Jimmy Morgan Zoo?… Read More
Busch Gardens. Yeah, I went Busch Gardens. That was my second trip, I believe, to Busch Gardens. So you went down to Busch Gardens from Jimmy Morgan. Yeah. Read More
Yeah, at least that. Trying to think of how my… Base everything on my kids. Read More
Four years was I there?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
And how long’d ya stay at the zoo?… Read More
About a couple of years?… Read More
Oh yeah, he was… You know, Bob was a nudist. Right. And he loved to take the girl out on nudist camping trips. I don’t know how he got away with it, to tell ya the truth. Different day. Yeah, different day. So you were the assistant director at the… Read More
Good director to you?… Read More
And what kind of director was Bob Truett?… Read More
Well, it was a nice little zoo. They had a number of projects. It was not necessarily the most modern zoo. (Robert laughs) My first official office was the… Because of segregation, we had restrooms for white people and restrooms for Black people. And then, there were white ladies’ and… Read More
What kinda zoo do you remember Birmingham being when you got there?… Read More
And so, I got one of them, and they got the other one. Read More
Well now, when you were in Birmingham, were there a lot of famous people who came through Birmingham?… Read More
Or not so much?… Read More
Not so much. Birmingham was kind of off the beaten track. It was the time of 1964, and it had to do with the segregation. There were problems there. Read More
You were taking a trip there?… Read More
Yeah, yep, and we were there… That was a zoo-directors’-tour business, but I remember being there. It was supposedly the day the fellow that supposedly killed her skipped the country. He left as we drove in. Oh. But that’s how… She had been in Louisville as a speaker for us. Read More
You met her then in Louisville. Yeah, originally, but I saw the last of her, unfortunately. Read More