Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 186
Because we had crates ready and we had drugs ready, we had veterinarians ready, we had ropes ready, and I had some experience with moving animals in the past. Read More
Because we had crates ready and we had drugs ready, we had veterinarians ready, we had ropes ready, and I had some experience with moving animals in the past. Read More
Why?… Read More
Easy. Read More
Hard to move them, easy to move them?… Read More
Got new land from St. Regis. They’re the ones that gave us the possibility of 80 acres. We didn’t use 80 acres, but gave us the possibility. You worked with Frank Westmark. Frank Westmark was the public relations guy for St. Regis Paper Company, and he was a friend of… Read More
Then you got some new land, how’d you get new land?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
You got land from someone, you had to get animals. I had people who donated chain link fence or donated a building, in fact our feed building was donated. That’s where we’ve had to keep the feed and dry it and get the rats out. So we had some help… Read More
How did you go about developing the physical zoo?… Read More
We developed the zoo. Read More
So when you came back, there was a physical zoo or you developed the physical zoo?… Read More
I did a lot of radio, some TV about the zoo. I was like chewing gum and chicken shit, I was everywhere. Read More
Go back. Because the concept of the zoo in the first place came from my interest and trying to get a zoo there. So my heart was still in Pensacola, that was part of my dream, to get a zoo in Pensacola. Charlie Stokowski a veterinarian friend who had been… Read More
So you made the decision what, to go?… Read More
What was his- He was one of the camp boys. Well, I saw him when we did our exercises and things, I’d see him in there. Pat was so proud of him years later when he’d see how famous he became. You did this job, running the farm camp, but… Read More
How did you know him?… Read More
Oh yeah. They could see success. When you put an egg under a hen, 21 days later, you got a chicken, that’s success. You mentioned George Foreman, who became heavyweight champion of the world. Read More
So you think this program was good for the young men that you were managing?… Read More
Yeah, did you have to… Well, they had to report to work and they had to keep their paperwork up on what their food bill was and their breeding programs and all that stuff. I think that program today is very needed in this country, I really do. Read More
An example?… Read More