The wrong people were doing this stuff in a lot of cases. And while there was a provision there that said, well you could get, you know, you could protest it and you could get rid of them, in reality, the reality of it is, very, very difficult and probably… Read More
They gave me some special award ’cause I was, I was the best, you know, presenter of the stuff, you know?… Read More
‘Cause when I talked to them, they all would listen. And sometimes I had to get into a fight, you know, some kind of an argument with some of them, but, you know, I mean, there were a lot of them that I got along with very well, and some… Read More
How much would you say politics and, of the city or the state affected the working of the zoo?… Read More
Well, it’s hard to say. I would say it’s not, it was relatively, I would say it’s relatively minor, but there were, there were times that certainly politics did get in the way. I mean, you know, they really, yeah, the politics with the city and between the city and… Read More
The wrong people were doing the wrong things, you know?… Read More
Did the zoo wanna annex it?… Read More
Well they did, that’s sure, oh yeah. Yeah, the idea was part of the master plan, actually that, and it has become actually that, it’s parking. So that’s what, that’s what it is now. It’s my understanding, anyway. Read More
Look how cold it is.” I said, “Yeah, right.” And of course people didn’t, that’s the point. So it didn’t affect the zoo so much. No, it didn’t affect it at all. So what did you do with it? The pool. It was left standing. Read More
You didn’t convert it at all?… Read More
Now it’s, well they, you now I think it’s gone. I think they’ve got, it’s gone now. But in my time it was just left there, fenced off. Read More
But yeah, I mean, and just went on and on, you know. There was a whole bunch of people that always showed up at every meeting and boy, they were, they were a small number of people, but they kept at it and that’s what caused it to seem like… Read More
Most people agreed, they said, “Well how could you swim in there?… Read More
And guys got up, I remember guys getting up, “We should bring dolphins in there, and we could all go swimming with the dolphins,” you know?… Read More
And he was serious. Read More
He thought that was a good idea, you know?… Read More
And that’s exactly what they wanted. Read More
I mean, there was, I remember going to hearings, I had to go to hearings about the pool, and they wanted to convert it into an ice skating rink, you know?… Read More
Can you imagine? (laughing) I mean, it was impossible. It couldn’t be done, you know, it just couldn’t be done. And one guy, well they were all, anybody could say anything they wanted to there. Read More
I mean, how could you?… Read More