Well, let me go back a little bit and talk a little bit more about Sacramento and what I was most proud of. The city of Sacramento, like any city, the money was difficult. But again, I had a very supportive boss, Bob Thomas and act actually a supportive city… Read More
But yet your tenure at the zoo as director is relatively short. Read More
Why did you decide to leave?… Read More
And that was finished when I was there. And then they had already started the design of an outdoor ranu, a better orangutan exhibit. So when we got rid of the gorillas, we could put the rings in this, well we could, didn’t matter about the gorillas, but we could… Read More
It had a lot of small cages, but it also had some single animals, single gorilla. So, and it had some exhibits that just weren’t acceptable. I think they had two penguins in a pit and had some maybe one seal left in a, a pool. So those things, first… Read More
Yeah, bill Meer. Bill Meer was president of a ZA and he’s the one that gave me the assignment to do the infant diet notebook. And Bill went on to, on to a private place up in the foothills of the Sierras. And, but he had been in the zoo… Read More
And the director you replaced, did you interact with them?… Read More
What were your priorities in the new position To make it better?… Read More
We had a staff of 10 or 11 animal keepers. We had a staff of two maintenance people. And that was it, I think. Read More
It was fairly modern, a very good collection of reptiles, including a lot of venomous reptiles and then some mishy mhy cages around, had cheetah, had a cheetah yard too. So I mean for a small 12 acre zoo to have cheetah, have, you know, various endangered cats, had great… Read More
What kind of, who did you find? Sacramento?… Read More
12 acres small. Had a nice little administration building and had pretty good animal collection, pretty good animal. It had giraffes, it had elephants, wallaroos Eland with ostrich. Had a nice primate collection. It had chimps in the world’s office. Awful world’s most awful chain link exhibit you could see. Read More
I had my own zoo and I was a zoo director and at 34 years old or whatever. And I, that was pretty cool. Read More
I don’t know if he was in Detroit, but he was somewhere and he actually, I think he was in Detroit and he thought California would be great. And so he looked into the job. The, the city manager was named Walter Sle. And he had interviewed the job and… Read More
But I also think Steve Graham, where was Steve Graham at the time?… Read More
I don’t know if it was a plan, but it was a great opportunity. I did a lot with San Francisco. I think that gave me some notoriety. Your former boss, Les Les Fisher and, and people in a ZA wanted to create an infant diet notebook. And I always… Read More
How often did you, it was very simple. And if you had any references that way people, if they had a taper, they could go to that and say, oh, mark Rosenthal always a taper. I could call him and find out more. So it was good. So I was… Read More
It was a form, you know, what did you feed it?… Read More
So now from San Francisco, you make a bigger move in 1981 to a director position, what prompts you to leave San Francisco?… Read More
Is this part of a plan?… Read More