Interview 25868 – Caption Index: 594
Mm-hmm. Read More
Mm-hmm. Read More
Yes, funding for ’em, yeah. Read More
Did Louisville have elephants?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Did people wanna put their name on exhibits?… Read More
That helped you to get some of the buildings in the various zoos?… Read More
Oh yeah, that’s one of the things that everybody… Some especially more than others but get their name printed on there so that everybody can see it, which is fine if it’s for real. Read More
(Robert laughs) (Mark laughs) So that helped you bring in certain animals. Or bring in… Well, I guess, eventually, it’s animal but the exhibits themselves, new exhibits. Read More
Somebody sees a bat-eared fox running across the prairie: “My goodness, look at that, would you?… Read More
Could we get some of those?” They’ve never seen anything like that. That’s really a nothing sort of little animal. Read More
And then, “oh my goodness, could we get some of those for our zoo?” And “yeah, we think we had probably could.” That helped you in your cultivation of money?… Read More
Yeah. Bringing people here. They think you’re so smart, too. Read More
Well, you’re smarter than they are, right?… Read More
These were the African trips, right?… Read More
Yeah, or whatever trips, overseas. Yeah, they’re a good way to promote a zoo and promote the growth of the zoo and the interest in having these animals that we’ve gone out and see them in the wild. Read More
I think so. Read More
Well, I think the commitment was there but it’s just the ability to do anything with it or to it, getting the moneyed people together and totally organized. That was what we were talking earlier about, the zoo trips. They were great ones for getting people involved and seeing some… Read More
Were there certain things that you tried to do to get them to be more committed to this zoo?… Read More
Or was it already there?… Read More
Did it have good community support?… Read More