Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 233
I remember had a guy when I was at Benson’s Animal Park, his name was, what was his name?… Read More
I remember had a guy when I was at Benson’s Animal Park, his name was, what was his name?… Read More
Well, I geared everything on the condition of the animals and the condition of the paddocks and pens, and if they weren’t right, I wasn’t happy. Read More
How did you find them?… Read More
Because now you’re a manager of all these people or a couple of people at least. Read More
Or how did you find the management?… Read More
Was it like the camps when you were doing it?… Read More
What was your management style to run that organization of those people working?… Read More
Let me ask, before we go to Africa, let me ask the question about your zoo director for a Lion Country in California. You have people now, you’re the director, you have people working for you. Read More
Do you remember that?… Read More
If they did that, you would take them to Africa for their laboratory classroom. At that time, we’d spend three weeks in Africa, and I was with the first group in ’73. We spent half the time in South Africa and half the time in East Africa. This is in… Read More
One of the great things with Pat at Lion Country Safari, so many things, but one of them was that he was, the drug companies had asked him to do experimentation, it was in the early stages of a lot of immobilizaton drugs. Pat had the opportunity of working with… Read More
Lion Country was a- Corporate. Lion Country was an innovator of the open drive through parks. Lion Country was owned by South Africans. Harry Schuster. Harris Schuster, Monte Copel and one other guy, and they were south Africans and they had a line park in South Africa, they developed one… Read More
What kind of place was it?… Read More
I was zoological director. Zoological director initially, and when Bill left, you were promoted to vice president of all of these safari parks. Three parks. So let’s talk about, so you go there as zoological director to California. Tell me about Lion Country. Read More
I was offered a vice presidency, wasn’t I?… Read More
So what position were you offered at Lion Country?… Read More
But pat was at Lion Country during that period of time. Read More
They hired, I can’t even think of his name now. And he’s still in the zoo business, but I cannot think of his name, anyway. During his tenure, Pat’s replacement’s tenure, the park finally didn’t make it, they always had huge financial problems. The St. Regis property was beautiful, but… Read More
You interviewed the fellow that would replace you, and he was a friend, remember?… Read More
Yeah, he liked me. And he said, “Do you want to come to Lion Country?” I said, yeah. And he told me how much he’d pay me, and so it was a good challenge and a step up for me. All of the people that were on Pat’s board at… Read More