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They were from Evansville, right?… Read More

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The next step was a meeting in Fort Worth of a number of zoos, a number of zoo people. There was a priest and a couple of other people there from. I didn’t hear who you said there. Read More

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What?… Read More

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Now Little Lawrence was an orangutan?… Read More

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Now you mentioned that at some point you felt, “Well, Fort Worth may not be the best place for my professional knowledge.” What made you decide to start looking elsewhere than Fort Worth, and what was the next step after that?… Read More

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Yes. A good sized baby. Two or three years old. I don’t know. He could stop me when I grabbed the bars. Read More

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He was called Little Lawrence by everybody in the zoo except the zoo director, whose name was Lawrence. And Little Lawrence was loose. And I went in and closed the door behind me, obviously. Little Lawrence was, oh, two or three years old. He put us back feet around my… Read More

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I walked back out ’cause somebody says else, “Every time I tried to walk into that cage, he’d grab it.” And he was strong enough. He could keep me from walking in the cage. There was a female orang on exhibit. I put him down, left him to his own… Read More

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That was how I got Little Lawrence in the cage. Read More

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And you went down, down at either end of the pool and viewed the porpoise in the water. Now this was, this was a month or more following the porpoise’s arrival. And she was putting this pool in the aquarium building along about the time she went in, went in… Read More

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Are there any that stand out that you were involved in, in helping to put together?… Read More

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No (chuckles). I took a phone call one night, three o’clock in the morning, night watchman. “My God, you’ve gotta get down here. Something’s loose in the ape house.” And I said, “What do you mean something?” And he said, “I don’t know what, but there’s something loose. The last… Read More

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I think she’s near Tarpon Springs, wasn’t she?… Read More

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Where was Trudy Jerkins?… Read More

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Tarpon Springs. Mike sent up one pink porpoise, and she had it in Fort Worth. Lawrence Curtis flew to Fort Worth and saw it, bought it, and it was flown into Fort Worth. We locked the hippos in their barn and used their outdoor pool to get the pink porpoise… Read More

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T-S-A-L-I-C-K-I-E-S. Mike Tsalikes worked out of Columbia. He sold a lot of reptiles through his partner. Read More

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God, where did I get that name?… Read More

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Not a big… If you worked in a zoo that used it, it was not featured. The news media made a lot out of it, but it wasn’t made a lot out of, didn’t deserve it. Didn’t deserve it, the attention it was getting. Now at the Fort Worth Zoo,… Read More

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Were you involved in that, in acquiring it?… Read More

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Yes. That’s rare. Curtis bought the first one from Trudy Jerkins, a lady importer of South American stuff. Her partner, Mike Tsalikes. Read More