Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 351
You can do anything you want to do with an animal and you’ll have somebody, the car is stopping, what are you doing?… Read More
You can do anything you want to do with an animal and you’ll have somebody, the car is stopping, what are you doing?… Read More
Yeah. It’s very interesting how people react to things when you’re dealing with animals and stuff. Read More
Were you always at the park?… Read More
BB guns, shook it They knew what a BB gun was, you just shake that BB gun and they know how to get in. All you had to do was shake the gun. After their butts were stung a couple of times, they learned to go in. That was what… Read More
How’d you get the lines back in?… Read More
You had those towers that had to have watchmen at the… How that worked, she’s talking about towers, we had people on towers that opened the gates and closed the gates so cars could go through. I remember one time, it was a Sunday, and the park was packed, some… Read More
Huh?… Read More
You had those towers. Read More
Were there certain things that you required to maintain these exhibits, all the different exhibits?… Read More
Was it difficult to maintain the exhibits?… Read More
What was that question?… Read More
Oh yeah. Tell me about that. Well, first of all, every ranger, these Rangers were in the park all day long in a section, whether it be lion or tiger or bear or whatever, or the river section, it was just hoofstock and rhino. They all had the…… Read More
Or did you have to develop methods to do this?… Read More
Were there any difficulties in maintaining the exhibits, all of these open air exhibits, bringing animals in, or feeding them?… Read More
If anybody had disagreed and it would be changed, it would be the owners of the zoo, owners of the facility. They want it a certain ways, they to do their way. But they were good about listening too, they weren’t really animal people, but they were good people. Read More
Or what was your management style of all these people?… Read More
Did people always agree with your decisions of how you wanted to do things?… Read More
Yes. Read More
For all the parks?… Read More
No, I was still involved with the animals. Usually I was the one that made decisions about the animals. Read More