Interview 31514 – Caption Index: 47
Now you were doing many things at the zoo, You Had many responsibilities or what were your primary responsibilities?… Read More
Now you were doing many things at the zoo, You Had many responsibilities or what were your primary responsibilities?… Read More
So it was, but Los Angeles was a good experience. The collection was phenomenal. Read More
And so there was, there was a very, very variety of keepers, curators were very open to, to talk to us. And you know, I knew I wanted to move up. I always, you know, I knew that I’d like to move up, but I was from California and I… Read More
Yeah, yeah, the curator, they were very open and you know, again, I had all the interest in the world. And so I think they appreciated that. There were still a few keepers there that weren’t, in a sense, professional keepers. They might have done a great job of cleaning… Read More
And I, I said to the keeper, I said, Don, what are you feeding?… Read More
He says, I don’t know what you call it, I just know what it eats. It was a pack, Rana. I mean there was a kind of a rare road in from others. So that’s kind of the level of some, and, but there were also some really smart, there’s… Read More
Chester Hogan. Chester Hogan took the job because he didn’t get, he really wanted the job at the convention bureau, but he got the job as zoo director and a nice enough guy. But he wasn’t a zoo director. And I don’t remember why, I don’t know if he wasn’t,… Read More
And did you, in your position there, did you interact with the director or curators?… Read More
But I, I really moved around wherever they wanted me because I, again, I tried to stay in graduate school so I could have Tuesday and Thursday off so I could take classes, so, And who was the Jew director when you started?… Read More
Well, let’s see, the zoo would’ve been about five or six years old. And it was a brand new zoo as you might remember. It was really, it wasn’t, we didn’t have zoo architects back then, you know, like we do now. So this was just a fairly famous architect… Read More
So all the exhibits were kind of the same. It didn’t matter if you were a badger or a serval or a be whatever, they were all kind of the same. And so it was kind of a boring type of extra architecture. But it was a good zoo. And… Read More
And what type of zoo did you find when you got to Los Angeles?… Read More
I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. Yeah, I took a test. I applied, I think I applied to other jobs too. San Diego. I applied to whatever jobs were around that time. You didn’t have the network that we have in a ZA now. There was no, you… Read More
And because I had been studying animals all my life, basically, I think I got the seventh best score, might have got the best score. But in, when, when in the city jobs, people got 10 extra points if they had been in the military. But, so I was seventh… Read More
Is this what you wanted your career path and how did this, how’d you get this job?… Read More
Yeah, first full-time. I had a lot of jobs during college. I worked in a hardware store, I worked in a Kenny’s shoe store. I did a bunch of things as part-time in the summer. I actually had a job part-time too in, with the city of Newport Beach measuring… Read More
And I worked part-time taking care of the mice and the rats. But we had primates and even had some turtles for some reason. I can’t remember why. And so I took care of those and later, you know, I managed a couple of employees at the medical school at… Read More
I want to be a zoo director. Probably more of a curator, but pretty early on a zoo director. But yeah, no, I pretty much decided in college that I’d like to work in a zoo. And one of the things that that helped is I got a part-time job… Read More
Was was this your first job, your first full-time job?… Read More
When did you decide that you wanted to work at a zoo?… Read More