Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 102
Did you get to meet them because of your association as part of the Bean family?… Read More
Did you get to meet them because of your association as part of the Bean family?… Read More
No, I didn’t meet all that many. I met a few, yes, but not all that many. Read More
Who were some of them that you recollect?… Read More
Well, it depends on what… He had problems, yeah. I mean that were interfering with the job. Well, that probably had been for a while, yeah. We all have those, though. But you knew that he was coming, maybe, toward the end of his career. Read More
Do you think he was ready to retire? Or not?… Read More
Oh, I think he woulda stayed there till he died. Well, he was almost that far. He did more or less die on the job. Now, during this time, there were other famous zoo people. Read More
Toward the end of your father’s career at Brookfield Zoo, did you know he was having problems?… Read More
What did he teach you that you can remember about the zoo business?… Read More
(Robert laughs) Stay out of it. You didn’t listen to him. (laughs) No. No, it could be a very difficult job, very difficult people that you deal with, especially, and fundraising and begging, animals. Read More
I guess a mentor of sorts, not necessarily totally mentoring. He didn’t necessarily like, I guess, that I was there watching him, but we had good times together, and he’d always come over and have dinner with us and was always very pleasant. Read More
No. He didn’t take over from his father. His father died in office. But he succeeded him after. Yeah, right, yeah, he did that. Read More
What were some of the things that you got from him?… Read More
Do you think he thought of you as competition to take over from him as he had taken over from his father?… Read More
Would you say that your relationship with your dad was he was a mentor to you?… Read More
Or treated you differently?… Read More
Were you still there?… Read More
No, I was in Busch Gardens, I believe. It was in ’63 when he retired. Read More
When did you decide that you wanted to go off on your own and not be under your father’s wing?… Read More
You were a keeper there at Brookfield. Yeah, I don’t know that I ever thought of it that way. No, I never thought about disassociating myself with him. I enjoyed him, and you could sneak a bit of knowledge out of him every now and again when he would let… Read More
And when did that hit ya?… Read More