And in Fair Park, in Dallas, they built all these wonderful, they built a natural history museum. They built an aquarium, and they built other museums, plus all the usual stuff you have at a fair. My parents took me to that aquarium on the way to Galveston. And I… Read More
Just blue crabs, the kind you eat, crab gumbo. And when we got to Dallas, very sad that the crabs had died. Oh, they were not in a sack, I’m sorry. They were in a metal bucket thing. But they’d died. I had it full of salt water and all… Read More
And I had things like that. Read More
Oh. Well, Sherman didn’t have a zoo. And my recollection of zoos was quite limited. And I’m not sure I understand why, but there was a zoo in Dallas, there was a zoo in Fort Worth. There was one in Houston, but I never went to it, they never took… Read More
What are your recollections of the first zoos that you were seeing?… Read More
And I’d put them in jars, and I’d keep them there for a while. And anytime we were driving on the highway, we have a lot of box turtles in Texas, we did then. They’re disappearing along with the rest of the fauna. And we would stop and get that… Read More
Well, I have to tell you, where I grew up. I was born in Galveston. But in two years we moved to a little, kind of a hick town in North Texas, north of Dallas called Sherman, Texas. And we grew up there. I did. For some reason, it can’t… Read More
And we had a miniature turtle-arium And I just made that word up, but it sounds okay. So I grew up and then, oh! We had a fish pond. I didn’t want goldfish. We would go fishing at one of the lakes and we’d bring perch back. We’d bring a… Read More
What kind of zoos did you see when you were growing up?… Read More
What are your recollections of those beginnings?… Read More
Your full name?… Read More
What else did you want?… Read More
My full name is Lawrence Lloyd Curtis. And my friends call me Lawrence or Larry, or sometimes things I wouldn’t want to, you know, you don’t want it on the camera. But anyway, I’ll answer to anything. I’ve even been called Reverend Dr. Curtis. And I answer to that. When… Read More
(Frank and Connie laughing) Nobody’s perfect. (Frank and Connie laughing) That’s what he used to always say to me. That’s a, that’s a- Nobody’s perfect. (chuckling) That’s a good memory. Read More
That’s what we strived for. (sniffles) And Frank, how would you like to be remembered?… Read More
I’m not that proud. I’m proud of some of the animals I handle, and I think they would be proud to have me say so. Read More
(Frank chuckles) He’s gonna tear up. I’ll say something here. When he started his import business, whether it be birds or mammals, he and I and our oldest daughter helped a lot through some of those years. She was wonderful with birds. But any shipment we got, we felt a… Read More
Any in particular?… Read More
You were always saying that feet need good care, feet. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yes, and so you have to be able to treat their feet. Yes. Read More
What are you proud about in the profession that you’ve done?… Read More