Well, by visitor service, I’m not sure I know what you mean. You mean- Just the visitor experience period, or the- Yes, the visitor experience period, that may not have had to do as much with the animals, but the zoo itself. Well, I think that when you build something… Read More
Well I wouldn’t, you know, I’m not really sure I know what you mean. Read More
You mean day-to-day activities of feeding and cleaning and stuff like that?… Read More
No, the operations of the zoo. Read More
Well, a lot of politicians from Sacramento came. (laughing) But you know, most of the, to be very honest with you, most of the time the pandas were here, I was in Africa. (laughing) Believe it or not. You mentioned that you would make rounds at night. Oh yeah. Not… Read More
I thought that was a real good thing. I went around at night most, almost every night. Read More
As zoo director, how involved were you in the day-to-day activities?… Read More
No, no. Why did you, I didn’t, I never met Frank Sinatra, no. Read More
Did the pandas bring any famous people to come and see them?… Read More
That I met, a zoo director that I met?… Read More
No, any people who were famous that had an impact on the zoo. Read More
Did you ever meet Frank Sinatra?… Read More
Well there was a lot of people I respected. I mean, honestly, I respected a lot of them, not that I learned much maybe necessarily, but there was a lot of ones. Read More
I mean, Bill Conway, Louis di Sablo, just to mention two, you know?… Read More
And there’s plenty, I’m sure there’s more, you know, that I’m passing over. But you know those people, they were, I respected them. And I’m not saying I didn’t learn anything, I mean from them, but I’m just saying they weren’t, I didn’t work with them. You know, I wasn’t… Read More
Who made the biggest impression on you, or maybe was the most famous that had an impact upon the zoo?… Read More
You know, you go to other places, you don’t ever see them doing anything. But here they really were because they weren’t afraid. They didn’t have stress. They had been used to it. In fact, when one, I can tell you right now, when at Lone Pine, there’s a, when… Read More
It didn’t cause any problems, that koala seemed, you know to me when I saw it, I said, “Geez, this koala,” if you can say a koala is ever enjoying anything, this koala was, looked like it’s enjoying it. But I don’t know, but anyway, they really, was the most… Read More
Were there other zoo professionals that you respected, and learned from, that had influence on you?… Read More
And the city, like Feinstein says, “Oh I’ll find the money, we’ll build it.” I said, “Where am I gonna build an exhibit though?… Read More