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The older keepers, “Well, who’s this young, you know, snotty-nosed kid?… Read More

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You were how old when you took this general curator job?… Read More

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I was 21. You were now in charge of a lot of people at a young age. Read More

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Hamilton Hittson moved up into the park director’s job. After that happened, he calls me up. He says, “You know Jim Brown, he’s our superintendent, we need a director. But I can’t call you a director at this time, but we’re gonna call you the general curator. Would you come… Read More

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I really was not, I wasn’t sure. I didn’t know what to do. And I would talk to people and get advice. Finally, the natural history museum director called me up. He said, “Lawrence, take that job in Fort Worth.” I said, “Well, why? Why should I do that?” He… Read More

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I went over there, and it was great. Read More

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And how did that next zoo job come about?… Read More

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Well, my next zoo after Dallas was pretty simple. At the Dallas Zoo, I would go to other zoos in Texas, and I would go to the Fort Worth Zoo to get animals. They were really (clicks tongue) active there. We used to put out a surplus list, AAZPA did. Read More

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And guess what?… Read More

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Just a bit, but don’t worry about it. That’s okay. That’s fine. Thank you. You were saying. Yeah. You were at Dallas for two years. Read More

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Where did you go from the Dallas Zoo as curator?… Read More

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Thanks. Occasionally it’ll bump the mic. Read More

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Would you mind taking your pen outta your pocket and just putting it on the side there?… Read More

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Are you getting any reflection off my glasses?… Read More

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How would you like to be our curator?” Well, hell, I grabbed it. I grabbed that. And so the minute I was through with my studies, I went over to the Dallas Zoo. And I’d never really worked in a zoo. I’d been in the, by then, I’d been in… Read More

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I went out with each keeper, until the keeper said, “Okay, Lawrence can handle my route.” They called them routes, of course, and I would do his route for a couple of days. Then I would go do another route. And I did, spent probably the first two months doing… Read More

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So you’re working at Dallas. One quick question, Mr. Curtis. Read More

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So they had a pall over the zoo, and there was a head keeper there. Read More

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And the park director said, “You want to get into zoos?… Read More

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They had maybe 40 zoos. There weren’t many zoos in the United States at that time. There were very few aquariums. And he put this roster out. And when Pierre Fontaine, my boss Pierre, called me at home, said, “Come, I have something to show you.” And it was this… Read More