Well, one of the things that I tried to do was I tried to have, to get, I’ve asked editors to send the same person to do an article on the zoo, because if you don’t, then you gotta bring the next one up to date, or up snuff. And… Read More
They didn’t like people telling them what, how to do their job, you know?… Read More
But when you got one of these young reporters in, they took sides, and some were favor of me and some weren’t. But I didn’t ask for people to be in favor of me. I just asked for a fair shake. That’s all I ever wanted. Read More
Did you plan events to cultivate the press?… Read More
For the media? Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah, they were invited to various things about, you know, before things opened, you know, and that kind of stuff, they were invited to things like that, yeah sure, always. Read More
No, it was off the zoo grounds across the street from my house, actually, near a National Guard unit also across there. Yeah, that’s what it was, I think. I mean, if that’s what I’m thinking, ’cause there was a place like that. You’ve had media, the public relations, good,… Read More
How did you view the media?… Read More
Well, you know I viewed them, you can say media, but you know, in fact it’s a bunch of people, it’s a bunch of different people. And as probably with life, the ones that are the best are the guys that have been around a while, the old-timers. I never… Read More
Why was it a necessary place for the zoo?… Read More
It wasn’t necessary for the zoo. The Resource Recovery Site was a place that they, I’m pretty certain that was what they called the recycling center, recycling place. Read More
Was that on zoo grounds?… Read More
I would go in the back area and we’d go with these people. And I’d go to the back of the hippo area and I’d open up this big iron gate, you know, window-like thing in back of the thing. And the hippo, male hippo was there, which I knew,… Read More
So have some lettuce, whole heads of lettuce for me laying here, you know?” And so I would give them, I’d say, “Throw it in his mouth,” whole, and he’d get it. And you do that and they, or bring them right up next to the elephant. Not in, I… Read More
What was the Resource Recovery Site?… Read More
The wrong people were doing this stuff in a lot of cases. And while there was a provision there that said, well you could get, you know, you could protest it and you could get rid of them, in reality, the reality of it is, very, very difficult and probably… Read More
They gave me some special award ’cause I was, I was the best, you know, presenter of the stuff, you know?… Read More
‘Cause when I talked to them, they all would listen. And sometimes I had to get into a fight, you know, some kind of an argument with some of them, but, you know, I mean, there were a lot of them that I got along with very well, and some… Read More
How much would you say politics and, of the city or the state affected the working of the zoo?… Read More
Well, it’s hard to say. I would say it’s not, it was relatively, I would say it’s relatively minor, but there were, there were times that certainly politics did get in the way. I mean, you know, they really, yeah, the politics with the city and between the city and… Read More
The wrong people were doing the wrong things, you know?… Read More