Interview 25370 – Caption Index: 82
At Baltimore?… Read More
At Baltimore?… Read More
Were there any major obstacles you had to overcome working at the zoo?… Read More
I wouldn’t say so other than, you know, trying to cut my teeth and gain some experience and things like that and get some confidence in the practicing medicine would reward, show you rewards in a zoo setting. No, we got the drugs we needed. I got the cooperation, if… Read More
What was the day like at Baltimore?… Read More
I mean you were coming from one job, you could just come in there and make rounds, or did you check in with someone, and they told you what they wanted you to look at, or … Well, from my house where I was living out in the suburbs of… Read More
Everything. Yeah, I had the advantage of, when I was at Angel Memorial, there was a, one of the first veterinarians, Midge Petrach track that was doing pet birds, and had written, wrote a book on that. So we had an exposure to birds and basic bird medicine when I… Read More
And so it must have been, was it so much different from working at Angel, and working at the zoo, aside from the exotic end of it?… Read More
Yeah, it was, I think I enjoyed it more, ’cause one thing that I found out at Angel and I think the reason now that I could not go into private practice was that I’d see an animal brought into Angel and even though it was an SPCA hospital, and… Read More
Unique collection?… Read More
When you were at the Baltimore Zoo, you were dealing with reptiles, and birds, and all kinds of things?… Read More
It’s larger now, the Baltimore Zoo now is much larger, but we had giraffes, you know, we had the classic zoo animals, it was the menagerie type small cages, they didn’t have, at that time, there was no big, open, naturalistic exhibits. But it was, and it was set in… Read More
Who was the director of the …… Read More
Is it you said John Moore was the Assistant Director?… Read More
Arthur Watson. And he was a … I guess he had a TV show in Baltimore, which I never saw, that was, I guess an early Marlon Perkins-type prototype, and well-known throughout the Baltimore area, and a very interesting man, very dedicated to animals, he had one unique trait that… Read More
You were the new guy or they just accepted you as the new part-time guy?… Read More
Were there curators at the zoo at the time of, how did you work with the staff?… Read More
Well, I’m not sure. I think I was pretty well-accepted, because at that time they had nobody, and I showed an interest, and I was there, you know, probably four or five times a week, and we were making some success. I mean we were making major changes, and things… Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you were there?… Read More
Did you have technicians?… Read More
Were you the, you were the one man show part-time?… Read More