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Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 120

If water is abundantly available then no. Years ago, a few zoos did exhibits for cheetahs. Then they did these long race track exhibits for cheetahs and cheetahs can run. Them not thinking, when do cheetahs run. The only time they running is when they hunting. Now unless you’re gonna… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 119

There’s no reason why we can’t keep elephants. I don’t think we too far off, too many generations away from people not having elephants to see in Africa or Asia. There won’t be any left. They’ll be gone and maybe the only place you’ll see them is in zoos. But… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 118

What’s your position on zoos maintaining elephants?… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 117

They did it better than some of the men carrying 150 pound bale of hay or bag of grain or whatever it was and now both zoos, high proportion of the staff are women keepers. What is your view regarding the hot topic of zoos maintaining elephants in their collection… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 116

They would try and (making mumbling sounds) and I say, “I don’t care how you doing, you’ll do it.” The bale is 150 pounds. Break it open. Take a wheelbarrow, put half in it at a time in the wheelbarrow you can just push it yourself. Don’t ask men to… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 115

How you going to do it?… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 114

I brought women in when after interviews could not send them away. I only invite to them was that I had to ask them the question, you got a hundred and fifty pound bale of hay or a hundred pound bag of grain. You gotta take it from point a… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 113

Well I trained a few trainees over the years and one of the first things I did with them was I made up a schedule for them to work with the keepers re installation of the park so there was 3 days one building one keeper and 5 days or… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 112

Well Elsie and Conways wife got into talking a lot more about other things than Bill and I did. Sue was a lovely lady, I would love to be able to show her some of what he has written. She doesn’t even have a computer. She never learned to use… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 111

Or was it strictly business?… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 110

Did you talk about different things other than the zoo because you were neighbors?… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 109

Neither of which they had nor was there a lot of interest in having them on their part either. But they were wonderful neighbors and we see a lot of them over there where we lived. Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 108

It worked out all right. They had some kids at home with them and we had our own private entrance from our area where we lived and we had electric gate, kids always outside, all of them. Bat cave lets go in the bat cave. And then we would get… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 107

Our kids and Elsie would often go upstairs during the early evening in the winter because it was so cold by the glass. My desk was downstairs in the corner kind of brick walls. It was fine. But we were concerned about the kids being isolated. You know when I… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 106

Well, one of our trustees had been the president of the board was resigning or retiring and he offered Conway a package of money to do with what he wanted and Conway said we’ll fix up the old cow barn at the farm in the zoo we gonna fix up… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 105

How did you come to live in the zoo and what was living in the zoo, what were the good things or the bad things?… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 104

A gorilla exhibit. We needed to badly do something for gorillas and I did a big thing every year until I got it. And I did. He would find the money and then we would do them and it was fun doing it that way. A lot of time. You… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 103

I had more going for me in New York than I could have any place in the country. In the world probably. I had a boss who listened to me and we fought. We had our fights but he listened to me. He found money for me. We used to… Read More

Interview 17445 – Caption Index: 102

Why?… Read More

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