The director of the Fort Worth Zoo was at one of the Zoo directors conferences. As a matter of fact, I think I sold him a pair of tapirs that we had at the, we had brought them in from South America. Little weight, little guys. Weighed 20 pounds a… Read More
Roland had connections?… Read More
A lot of what we got in those days were what?… Read More
Well, Roland, of course, visited all the zoos in Europe, and he had a lot of money, and he offered enough money to buy these things. Read More
So you were- So you were at the game farm when some rare animals, like the Somali wild ass, came through the game farm?… Read More
Which was very rare. Read More
Do you remember how that came about?… Read More
He went in place of him. I was replacing Roland Lindemann, who had suddenly been called overseas or whatever. And I went to Chicago to represent the game farm. My God, (chuckling) I was terrified. But I met Marlin Perkins, who was doing weekly TV show. I was assigned, assigned… Read More
I met her, and I was assigned a job of collecting some funds from everybody there. I survived the week, and I went to the, I think, the next, next with Roland, but I don’t remember. Read More
Yeah, the first, right?… Read More
Anyway, it was- That sounds to me, maybe that was Chicago. Read More
Is that Chicago?… Read More
Connie, can you remember where I went the first time?… Read More
Oh, yes. Roland took me to a couple of annual meetings of zoo directors. Zoo directors had annual meetings. The leading person in charge of each zoo attended most of these meetings. And I went to several. The first one I went to was in Chicago. I guess probably…… Read More
The first time, first zoo conference with Roland. First conference. I went instead of Roland. Instead of Roland. Oh, God. Read More
Yeah. (laughs) Well, let me ask a follow up on the Catskills. Read More
At Fort Worth?… Read More
Did Roland Lindemann ever give you any advice that you used later in later life?… Read More
Think of a name that you’d like to be.” (chuckles) And Heinz did. I’ve forgotten what his title was. But he was not happy there. They fit in very well. They really filled the title of assistant director. This was around Christmastime of that year. That spring, my duties were… Read More
I would report to the basement of the administrative building, and put together the groups of gift shops. And there were a group of gift shops in the entire park. I would put together the number of photographs that they needed to refill their stock. Along about July, he called… Read More