A very personal guy, good personality, people liked him, he was easy going. One of the things that I noticed at San Francisco Zoo when I first went there, is that they had a union there. And they’d strike on some reason or other. I had trouble getting my car… Read More
How did he run the zoo?… Read More
What was his director’s style, tough guy?… Read More
Carrie Baldwin, what kind of director would you call him?… Read More
Carrie Baldwin loved you. Carrie Baldwin was the director then, and he was a dear friend and had a lot of energy. Read More
What kind of zoo did you find?… Read More
Did the director meet you with open arms?… Read More
Were you excited?… Read More
So when you left Pensacola, there was no zoo, there was just this dream of a zoo. Yes. Dream of a zoo. You take this job in San Francisco and you move your whole family there. No, he goes out alone, his family stayed in Pensacola. So you are there… Read More
So you are part of this group of people who want to have this dream of a zoo in Pensacola, and you’re able to acquire a small amount of land. Not yet, not yet. At that point, they did not have any property. So you just have the zoo society. Read More
I had some friends out that were into birds, pheasants and pigeons and things like that. We would visit each other and we’d talk about what we could do maybe with this urge we had to raise our animals and things. And we communicated, but my friends, Jim, Dr. Potter,… Read More
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How did that come to be?… Read More
Well, if I got on the horse, I was tough. But I never had to fight one, I never had to put my hands on one, for some reason it worked. I think that it worked not because of me, it worked because of the animals that they had to… Read More
Or did you have a different style?… Read More
Well, I wasn’t a big boss, I had bosses over me in the administration buildings, things like that. I was out there to train Corps men and teach them a little math and how to weigh food and how to make money with the food and sell it to the… Read More
And how would you describe yourself as?… Read More
So you were the big boss there, what style would you say you had when you were running this place?… Read More
Well, he was one of the kids in the Corps. And he was a boxer then and an athlete, and I was proud of him because he did very well. Because these kids in those days, these kids had little opportunity to do better. But I think some of the… Read More
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