Oh yeah, we’d meet conferences, we talked. We would visit other places too and we’d get different ideas from each other. Now there are different problems in an open air, safari-like atmosphere than there are in what I would call a zoo that has caging. Read More
Would you talk with other directors of zoos?… Read More
Frank Todd was the curator of bird for SeaWorld. He was the one that ran the penguin show of it, handled all the birds, a good on waterfowl. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Would you tell us who Frank Todd is?… Read More
I’d go to veterinarian friends, number one. Also I had friends in the industry that. Frank Todd, you would call. Frank Todd was a good friend of mine. It was a vet that you would call that would fly, I don’t know what his name was. He used to fly… Read More
And if you had problems or issues, who did you go to in the zoo community that you respected?… Read More
As director, did you have people you would talk with?… Read More
So you are running the zoological attraction, you’re a member of AZA?… Read More
It was popular because there was no other place doing something like that. And it was expensive to run. I bought shares in the company and the shares went up from what, went up to $28 or something like that. Her dad bought shares and he sold it, I didn’t. Read More
Was Lion Country popular or was Disney popular?… Read More
Now, how difficult was it competing with other attractions in California?… Read More
You are correct, sir. Yeah, I think so. Read More
That was called angel dust, I think they called it, correct?… Read More
Well, yeah. Of course in those days, this was the ’70s, and pot was very popular in California then. So we had one guy was taking Sunland and died with a Sunland dose. Read More
So you had a lot of difficulties, both with the staff and with people when they would go through this drive through?… Read More
Remember Craig, he trusted the lions too much. Hand raised a lion, and then the lion eventually Got him. Got him. Put him in the hospital for months, months and months. I don’t remember his name. Read More
What about the guy that hand raised the lion?… Read More
She thought she was whirling the window up and instead she rolled it down and the lion got her. She was in the hospital for a long time. Scalped her big time. Read More
She thought she reversed it, didn’t she?… Read More