Interview 24153 – Caption Index: 92
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Oh, Toby Tobias was a vet. He was a hell of a good vet. My son, for a while before he died, he was driving, driving a vehicle. Limousine. Read More
And what was your relationship?… Read More
Yeah, Roland Lindemann ran a much improved version of the zoo. It was very well run in Fort Worth. Was more of a zoo that featured the general curator. Whatever, director. Read More
Did you work with Toby Tobias?… Read More
With John. Hummingbirds and the plane. Yeah. Yeah, we had to feed the hummingbirds on the plane coming back. Yeah, it was something. And ask him about the pink porpoise. He was involved in it. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. We didn’t bring any pink porpoise. Read More
No, no, no. That’s separate. I said ask you about the pink porpoise. That was a separate thing. That was a separate thing. Well, let me ask you, Frank, a question. Read More
When you, basic, when you came from this privately run zoo by Roland Lindemann to a more public zoo, operated by the city of Fort Worth, did you see differences in the way it was run, both of them were run?… Read More
didn’t you bring back that trip?… Read More
What?… Read More
Didn’t you bring back some hummingbirds that trip?… Read More
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For Atlanta Zoo, Fort Worth Zoo?… Read More
Fort Worth Zoo, yeah. Read More
And in the course of collecting, I got bitten by a rear-fanged snake. I can’t remember the name. But I grabbed the snake off the log, and it turned around and bit me. And this was the rear-fanged snake. Wasn’t terrible. I was bit numb, this hand, I think. I… Read More
The treatment was worth experiencing. (chuckling) And was this a collecting tour?… Read More
I trip up. We pulled into, pulled into a trader’s place in Guatemala City, and I got treated further that afternoon (chuckles). God, I nearly passed out from the treatment, but the bite was nothing. Read More
The Fort Worth Zoo was sort of a one-man zoo. It wasn’t, wasn’t entirely a one-man zoo, but damn near it. He called the shots on everything. Lawrence Curtis. I took the job of general curator. I was sorry that I had taken it later on. We moved there, bought… Read More
John Mertens operated the reptile house by a remote control. He would tell his stepson, “Do this and do that,” and everything would be all right. They had been operated under this way for a year since the reptile house had been opened. Shortly after I came there, John Mertens… Read More
Steve Dobbs was invited to attend, I guess it was a vacation in Guatemala. I went along as general curator, more or less in charge of the operation. And a third person, I don’t remember the guy’s name, but a friend of Steve’s went along. We went to Guatemala. We… Read More