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They have the money that the Busch had?… Read More

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No, no, no, (laughs) they didn’t have anywhere near the kinda money. I don’t know what… No, I don’t imagine. Most of it was done by hook or by crook, building exhibits. So there was no board of directors you had to work through. It was just the owners. No,… Read More

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What were some of the challenges of getting the animals, aside from no money?… Read More

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Or you heard about it?… Read More

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They sought you out to get you to help ’em?… Read More

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The whole thing was a cave display. That’s the down under business, cave country in down under Australia. The gal whose husband owned the place was from Australia. And so, she wanted to do something Australian, so I put in bird displays, and we did some marsupials of all sorts. Read More

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And what was that all about?… Read More

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Oh, that was down in Horse Cave, Kentucky. Read More

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It was an Australian theme park. Read More

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You hired him?… Read More

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Mm-hmm. Yeah. Read More

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And when you retired from Louisville, you helped to establish a park, Kentucky Down Under?… Read More

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And who came after you? Do you remember?… Read More

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You retired from there. Yeah. Read More

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Yeah, John Walczak. He’s there now. Okay. I hired him. Read More

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Mkay, and what would you have liked to have accomplished that you weren’t able at Louisville?… Read More

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At Louisville. I don’t know. (indistinct) pretty much things that have been done. I don’t know what. We’d put in a new gorilla display and great apes, redid the polar bear exhibits, things that were overdone that didn’t work well, but a lotta things additional, the changing of existing facilities. Read More

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No, I didn’t. No, I don’t guess so, but there are those that sort of stuck it on me. I benefited from that relationship. Read More

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Oh, I think our education facility that we had. Had been a chimp show, and we turned it into an educational facility. So you were moving away from the animal shows. Yeah. Read More

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And when you were at Louisville Zoo, what did you achieve there that you were really proud of?… Read More