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Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 15

Oh, she lives 10 miles up the road this way. I didn’t have the money for a taxi one or too much money. So I started hitchhiking. And, and it’s a busy, people are going by, you know, white people are going by, nobody’s picking this kid up. That’s finally… Read More

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I said, well, well, well, Ms. Addison. I, I, I, I’m a friend of Dan. I know who Dan Brennan is. What do you want? I said, I, I was wondering if I could come see you. Well, I’m free tomorrow. You can come to lunch. I’m in Lake Nasha. Read More

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I get on this bus. I’m the only white guy on the bus, you know, I got, this is 19, you know, 74. I got these, I got a picture. I got these bell bottoms on and this polo shirt. And I’m carrying in a cache case, look like a… Read More

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You said, you, you, how old are you in seventh grade, whatever, 13. And I said, well, I like animals. You wanna be a vet. That’s all they knew. You wanna be a veterinarian. So I took that course of, of, you know, of study and got into Cornell. ’cause… Read More

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I I was also working at Jungle Habitat. We can get back to that part-time. But I go to Africa on my own with some letters of recommendation from, from an individual at Warner Brothers Jungle Habitat. And I stayed there until my money ran out, which was like four… Read More

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And she says, who are you? Why are you calling me?… Read More

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Just dogs. And my mom took care of ’em more than I did. I, I wasn’t the kid that went out there. I, and picked up everything and collected everything. I was fascinated with it. But again, a second grade, I think it started there. There’s not one moment in… Read More

Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 7

And then we went to the museum in natural history and I talked about that and, and the Bronx Zoo. So I was fascinated. So I’m in seventh grade in junior high, and they call it middle school now, I guess. And you have guidance counselors. And the guidance counselor… Read More

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Ricky, what do you wanna do?… Read More

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Were animals part of your life?… Read More

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And that worked out really well. I became captain of the wrestling team and there, there were things I did, you know, like that. And being the resident advisor at Cornell for two years, that really helped my people skills quite a bit. And you mentioned it, but tell us… Read More

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And who were your parents? What did they do?… Read More

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Winnie and Tony Barongi. Winnie or Winifred. My mother was from German and Polish parents, and who died way before I was born and was born in New York City and met my father in, I think, junior high. And then they went out in high school. She was very… Read More

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My mom was just incredible. My dad was typical Italian dad, you know, always, always, always busting my balls because that’s what Italian dads did. And I was an only child, so I, I took the brunt of everything. So I was a little closer to my mother, which made… Read More

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Well, my name is Rick Barongi, although my mother named me Roderick because she liked Rick, but she thought Richard was too common. So I had this name Roderick, which I hated when I was young, but I’m Rick Barongi. I was born May 25th, 1952 in Flushing Hospital in… Read More

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My legacy is Peterman the chimpanzee, as you know. And well, I would prefer that people think of me as a good zoo director. Read More

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How would you like to be Remembered?… Read More

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And how would you like to be remembered your legacy?… Read More

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I can say that I liked it very much, that I was very happy that they selected me as a zoo director and I did my best to do the job. And this was very satisfying. Read More

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There are several of them in England. Almost all the zoos are privately owned. Only I think London, which is owned by a society and not by the city in the way, in that way. And they do all of them, not all of them, but most of them do… Read More

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