It was salt water from the ocean. I mean, definitely was intake, salt water intake from this ocean. But you know, it sat there for, I don’t know. I said, “Well, when did you ever empty it?” “No, no, because it’s too hard to fill, takes too long.” I mean,… Read More
Why would you put a pool there?… Read More
No, I’ve never heard of a good answer to that question. And at the end nobody, there were like five or six people swimming in that pool a day, toward the end of the deal. And I talked to, I knew people who had taken care of that place, ’cause… Read More
And they said, “Well, you looked at it,” you know?… Read More
What was the Fleishhacker?… Read More
The Fleishhacker Pool was a, the biggest salt water pool in the world, that Herbert Fleishhacker donated land, well supposedly. He really didn’t donate land, he sold the land to the city. And they built that pool, and while it is true, there may have been a few days in… Read More
Why would you put a pool there?… Read More
I don’t know if I had any proof of that, but I’ll bet it did. Read More
Did the Fleishhacker Pool incident work against the zoo?… Read More
Oh, I don’t think so, I don’t think so. Read More
Was the Zoo Run a good promotion for the zoo?… Read More
The Zoo Run, did you have a run?… Read More
Oh yeah, of course we did. Yeah, we had a Zoo Run. Yes, it was a real, yes it was a good promotion. Yeah it was. That was started actually before I got on the scene, but yeah, it was a good, it was a good promotion. Did it help… Read More
I mean, why are people coming to the zoo?… Read More
I mean, they’re coming because they wanna see animals, basically. I mean, that really is the reason. And you know, it’s not the kids that bring the parents. You know it’s the parents that bring the kids. I mean, so you’re telling me the kids are for zoos. Yes sort… Read More
I didn’t say, well maybe when I got used to going and liking it so much, I may have said, “Let’s go to the zoo,” but he’s the one that started it, not me. And that’s the case pretty much with almost everybody, really. Read More
And speaking about being the behest of many people, did you have a marketing strategy for getting people to come to the zoo, aside from building a new exhibit or bringing in blockbuster pandas?… Read More
Well, why would they come to the zoo?… Read More
And you can use any other word other than glamor, but. Well, I don’t know. I think that, and it’s like being a servant, basically really to, you know, you really, you need to do, you have to be ready to do the dirty work. Read More
And I don’t mean clean, you know?… Read More