Interview 29556 – Caption Index: 134
She goes, oh yeah, yeah, it was good, it was good, but, but no hot water in the shower. Read More
She goes, oh yeah, yeah, it was good, it was good, but, but no hot water in the shower. Read More
Our office was the old department in the chat aquarium till it disappeared. Just take a side note, tell me about the history of the apartment that you just mentioned. The apartment was part of the original design of the aquarium. It was on the mezzanine or the middle level… Read More
I was alone initially, and then Ken Ramirez was a first staff member and that was a chance occurrence, and I’ll save you the whole story, but I went to attend a marine mammal meeting in San Antonio and a side trip after meeting was in Galveston, Texas where he… Read More
How many staff reported to you or were you alone?… Read More
And you know, it’s just kind of chants sometimes, sometimes targeted as far as asking people, how does this work?… Read More
It’s a big restaurant, you know, big volume. He goes, oh, I know Bobby, I know Bobby I’ll, I’ll call him out when he comes out to work the tables, sure enough, Bob Shin comes out, he’s about 30 feet away. He is like, Hey Bobby, Bobby, come over here,… Read More
Watertight gates to a person. I’m sure people said there is no such thing, they all leak, but you wanna minimize the loss, obviously. And that was very important in us dividing tanks with watertight gates and you know, there were times we would have to drain one tank but… Read More
And what’s your experience with that?… Read More
I remember you probably remember Ed CRA from Brookfield, and so he was probably one of the most important people when it came to visiting him and like, how do you do this?… Read More
I remember him telling me, when you get down to stainless steel, the contractor’s gonna tell you 3 0 4 grade stainless. He goes, don’t take that 3 0 4, it’s no good. You gotta go three 16. I’m like, I knew nothing about that. He says, come here, I’m… Read More
And what were your new responsibilities?… Read More
So depending on the average adult length of, say a beluga whale, that would dictate how big that diameter had to be. You had to be able to inscribe a circle that big within the outline of the exhibit. So you had to meet that lowest can comment denominator volume… Read More
Well there, initially it was to do library research on surveys of the marine mammals, primarily at this time the beluga whales and a white sided dolphins, because part of the permit application had you define the size of the population from which you hoped to take the animals. So… Read More
How did you get the job? Did you have to interview?… Read More
Yeah, it was a new position because we used to have a little auditorium and I remember Bill Breaker calling the staff into this little auditorium. I think our, the entire entire aquarium staff might have been 75 people. And he announced that after years of wrangling with the board… Read More
And so I told him I was interested and I applied and there wasn’t really a, an in-depth interview process, it was, I was actually assigned acting curator. And so Breaker would tell me PR primarily start researching these animals and what’s required for the permit applications. I was responsible… Read More
We were the guys that had to go and take care of it because we had the most people and we had the, the numbers of strong guys type of thing. So yeah, nothing really obvious, real glaring. One disappointing thing, I remember I was actually, this is predates my… Read More
Yeah. So you are promoted. Did you, did someone retire?… Read More
Transport, not a net, but a stretcher and getting it into the aquarium and then what we call wa walking it, which meant put its mouth at a water ette to force water over its gills and bathe the gills and get ’em back to to speed. It was an… Read More
We ended up just scooping it up with a long, what do you call it?… Read More