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Well I wouldn’t, you know, I’m not really sure I know what you mean. Read More

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You mean day-to-day activities of feeding and cleaning and stuff like that?… Read More

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No, the operations of the zoo. Read More

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Well, a lot of politicians from Sacramento came. (laughing) But you know, most of the, to be very honest with you, most of the time the pandas were here, I was in Africa. (laughing) Believe it or not. You mentioned that you would make rounds at night. Oh yeah. Not… Read More

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I thought that was a real good thing. I went around at night most, almost every night. Read More

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As zoo director, how involved were you in the day-to-day activities?… Read More

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No, no. Why did you, I didn’t, I never met Frank Sinatra, no. Read More

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Did the pandas bring any famous people to come and see them?… Read More

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That I met, a zoo director that I met?… Read More

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No, any people who were famous that had an impact on the zoo. Read More

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Did you ever meet Frank Sinatra?… Read More

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Well there was a lot of people I respected. I mean, honestly, I respected a lot of them, not that I learned much maybe necessarily, but there was a lot of ones. Read More

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I mean, Bill Conway, Louis di Sablo, just to mention two, you know?… Read More

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And there’s plenty, I’m sure there’s more, you know, that I’m passing over. But you know those people, they were, I respected them. And I’m not saying I didn’t learn anything, I mean from them, but I’m just saying they weren’t, I didn’t work with them. You know, I wasn’t… Read More

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Who made the biggest impression on you, or maybe was the most famous that had an impact upon the zoo?… Read More

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You know, you go to other places, you don’t ever see them doing anything. But here they really were because they weren’t afraid. They didn’t have stress. They had been used to it. In fact, when one, I can tell you right now, when at Lone Pine, there’s a, when… Read More

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It didn’t cause any problems, that koala seemed, you know to me when I saw it, I said, “Geez, this koala,” if you can say a koala is ever enjoying anything, this koala was, looked like it’s enjoying it. But I don’t know, but anyway, they really, was the most… Read More

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Were there other zoo professionals that you respected, and learned from, that had influence on you?… Read More

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And we have, we have the eucalyptus for them, you know, obviously, and they were keepers who were, who that’s what their job was. To find eucalyptus growth, cut the eucalyptus, bring it back, feed it to these koalas. ‘Cause that’s what they, that’s you know, that is all they… Read More

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And the city, like Feinstein says, “Oh I’ll find the money, we’ll build it.” I said, “Where am I gonna build an exhibit though?… Read More

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