Interview 22122 – Caption Index: 337
And I mean, we would always go to other zoos, and I always went to lots of other zoos to get ideas, and try to find out what worked and what didn’t work, why it worked, you know?… Read More
And I mean, we would always go to other zoos, and I always went to lots of other zoos to get ideas, and try to find out what worked and what didn’t work, why it worked, you know?… Read More
And a lot of them had some really interesting stuff. I mean, when we were building the River’s Edge, where we had underwater viewing of hippos, you gotta have a super filtration system to keep that clean. And again, we looked at a couple of really good ones. Busch Gardens… Read More
Well, how did they position it, you know?… Read More
Well, I think you wanna see the animal in, you know, of course exhibit design has evolved in zoos over the years, from the sterile cage that from a veterinary standpoint, you might be able to sterilize this thing and keep anything away. It’s a lot different if they’re out… Read More
What exhibits are you really proud of?… Read More
Well some of them, I mean, River’s Edge was one that the landscaping has really made the difference. Read More
So you know, I guess I got really involved in a lot of the construction and various exhibitry. So you had ideas about the ideal zoo exhibit type of design. Read More
What components to you, that you were talking to people about as director, were important in exhibit design?… Read More
Those kind of things that might have been part of a master plan, or you added to a master plan?… Read More
Well, I mean, after you’re there a while, you know what works and doesn’t. Part of the original master plans early on, I’m talking way back, was saving some of the old structures, some of the old architecture. I mean we had some really neat architecture in our herpatarium. Read More
It’s changed, it used to be called the snake house, then it was the reptile house, now it’s the herpatarium, you know?… Read More
But it’s the same building, and that building is just fabulous architecturally. And the primate house, the bird house, and what we call the antelope areas, big rocks area, red rocks area, it’s some really, and our bear pits, were all historical structures that were built, I mean, the bear… Read More
You talked about a master plan for the zoo and said, I guess there was a couple of master plans through the ages. Read More
What, as part of the master plan, what did you design or aid in planning of new exhibits when you were there?… Read More
Or maybe a little before you, were you able to complete some projects that had started, or you wanted to do, or you thought should happen?… Read More
And everybody’s important, whether they’re the custodial staff or the, you know, head of of finance or HR, they’re important people, they’re employees of the zoo. Read More
And gosh, you know, even today, 15 years after I’ve retired, I go there and you know, some of those people are still there and it just feels good to you know, “Oh, how you doing,” you know?… Read More
Were there policies that you developed, that you developed that helped change the zoo?… Read More
I don’t know about policies. I think whether they were mine or Charlie’s, I think we, it was just, we had a lot of the same backgrounds. We both had grown up very similarly in South St. Louis, and it was funny how much we thought alike. So whether I… Read More
It you know, you know that you know everybody, you know?… Read More