Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 155
Well his style was very, was reserved, I would say. Not in a bad way, not in a bad way at all. He was, he was friendly, most assuredly. Read More
Well his style was very, was reserved, I would say. Not in a bad way, not in a bad way at all. He was, he was friendly, most assuredly. Read More
Do things for you, he would, you know, I mean there was, but there was no question that he was the director of the zoo and you weren’t, you know?… Read More
Well George Irving yes, George Irving was there, but there were two curator positions though. And George Irving was still one curator. Yeah was one, was one of a sort. I mean, George had been there for many, many years and he, really George truthfully was a timekeeper. Basically, he… Read More
What kind of zoo did you find when you got there?… Read More
Well it was a zoo that had traditionally had a good collection, good collection of animals. And traditional old, you know, an older facility that was a very, very popular place with people, with the citizens of Chicago. And needed, could’ve, needed a lot of improvement I think, to come… Read More
Yes, this was for general for curator, yeah. General curator. But here was a general curator when you arrived. Read More
George Irving?… Read More
About two or three days. (laughing) So now you’re looking for a job. Yeah, now I’m looking for a job. Go back to Omaha, and looking for a job. And I, like I say I saw the, well I was still getting the newsletter. Read More
I was a member still of the AAZ, what was then called AAZPA, which it’s called now, I have no, I think it’s the AAZA, is that correct?… Read More
Anyway, and there was a job section, you know, and I looked, and there was Lincoln Park Zoo, and they were looking for a curator. And I said, “Hey, this might be, you know, that’s a good place, that’s a good collection, it sure is, and I’ll look into that.”… Read More
At any rate Les picked me, which I was, you know, and I said, “Hey, that’s great.” Was this for general curator?… Read More
He’s got his own ideas surely.” And he was a private, you know, he had done it, give the devil his due. He had built that zoo outta nothing. He had built that zoo out of wrestling. He was a professional wrestler. He built that place out of his professional… Read More
And so my career at the Alberta, but he did send, I did work one or two days there, cleaning up and feeding the muskox and doing stuff like that. He did get me to do that for him, but that was okay. But once again, I loved it. I… Read More
How long did that stint last?… Read More
And I start to think to myself, “Why does this guy need me?… Read More
What does he want me here for?… Read More
And you know it was, it was a big place, and it was a nice farm, you know, big, giant farm, big collection of hoof stock, big, you know, West Northern hoof stock. You know, muskox, caribou, different kinds of caribou, woods bison, and you know, lots of things like… Read More
And that’s a different kind of a thing too, because you would then have to rely on money coming through the gate primarily, because these other zoos, you were getting money from the city and getting money from foundations and they didn’t have one up there. So I thought this… Read More
And so I would say to him, “Oh, we can do this.” And I’d show him on drawings and he’d say, “No, no, we’ll do this, we’re gonna do this.” And then every time I’d say that, what we could do, he’d say, “No, we’re gonna do this,” you know?… Read More
What happened?… Read More