Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 498
I’m glad you’re here, where are you from?… Read More
I’m glad you’re here, where are you from?… Read More
They’re now very successful in the community. I’d go out to the zoo to talk to people, I’d walk up to a couple and I’s say, “Where are you all from?” And they backed off. I said, “Oh, I’m sorry, where are you from?” I said, “I’m not going ask,… Read More
That’s something I’ve learned by doing. And the other thing Pat always did too, is he was, like I said, he was always out in the community. So the entire community of Pensacola, Fort Walton, they all just associate Pat Quinn, The Zoo. But what he did was also on… Read More
Yes, it is very important. Tell me why. Well, you go around and you see faucets leaking water, and you wonder why the water bill’s high, faucets with hose got leaks in it. And they keepers don’t care, they just wrap it up and forget about it. But you can… Read More
Is that important?… Read More
Yes, absolutely. Read More
Let me ask a question, did you make rounds of your zoo?… Read More
What were some of your daily responsibilities?… Read More
Now, as director of the zoo and you had employees, can you take me through what would be a “normal day” for you?… Read More
We did. We did. The zoo did, we did. We bought their insurance too, we paid for their insurance. Read More
The Renfroes, who paid for that?… Read More
Copyright, that’s what I’m thinking, we had to have copyright. And the winner did not take the trip but gave it to the Renfroes. The Renfroes own Renfroe Pecan Company and Jake and little Renfroe were the people that went to Africa with us. So every year at the Christmas… Read More
Copyright?… Read More
All the collaterals had to be changed when that happened. Read More
That was the original, the logo and everything had to be, what’s the word I want?… Read More
No. But we did have to get a…… Read More
But I mean there was no legal problem over that, was it?… Read More
That’s all I remember about it, I don’t remember there was any conflict over it. We had to get though a- Some of them wanted Jungle Land, Pat’s Jungle. Read More
I don’t know. Gulf Zoo Gulf Breeze Florida. We had a name the zoo contest in the very beginning and we had lots of contests like that, name the zoo contest. The winner was going to get a trip to Africa with Pat. The zoo, that was the winning… There… Read More
And why did some of the media respond negatively to it?… Read More