Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 133
I raised a little baby peccary, what else?… Read More
I raised a little baby peccary, what else?… Read More
Well, I wasn’t allowed to do things I would like to do because I wanted more hands on and I couldn’t do that. I did bring some things up. Read More
You work at the zoo, are you happy working at the zoo or are people not allowing you to do the work you want to do?… Read More
Had a house there, Carrie did, yes. But you did not live on the grounds. No. Read More
Had a house there?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Did the director live on the zoo grounds?… Read More
A very personal guy, good personality, people liked him, he was easy going. One of the things that I noticed at San Francisco Zoo when I first went there, is that they had a union there. And they’d strike on some reason or other. I had trouble getting my car… Read More
How did he run the zoo?… Read More
What was his director’s style, tough guy?… Read More
Carrie Baldwin, what kind of director would you call him?… Read More
Carrie Baldwin loved you. Carrie Baldwin was the director then, and he was a dear friend and had a lot of energy. Read More
What kind of zoo did you find?… Read More
Did the director meet you with open arms?… Read More
Were you excited?… Read More
So when you left Pensacola, there was no zoo, there was just this dream of a zoo. Yes. Dream of a zoo. You take this job in San Francisco and you move your whole family there. No, he goes out alone, his family stayed in Pensacola. So you are there… Read More
So you are part of this group of people who want to have this dream of a zoo in Pensacola, and you’re able to acquire a small amount of land. Not yet, not yet. At that point, they did not have any property. So you just have the zoo society. Read More
I had some friends out that were into birds, pheasants and pigeons and things like that. We would visit each other and we’d talk about what we could do maybe with this urge we had to raise our animals and things. And we communicated, but my friends, Jim, Dr. Potter,… Read More
How did it start?… Read More
How did that come to be?… Read More