And that was one of the things he liked to do with his gun. He had on the zoo car, he got a zoo car, and on the zoo car, he mounted a rifle. He drove around the zoo taking great delight in shooting predators and God knows what all. Read More
Did he come in as a veterinarian?… Read More
Yes and more, and more. I couldn’t tolerate the way he treated the Black people there, ’cause we had hired a number of Blacks to work in the zoo, and I couldn’t tolerate that. I may be being unfair to him, but I talked to, you know, the Black guys… Read More
Yes, you know, I’ll be very frank with you. I don’t remember a lot of that. I don’t remember a lot of that. Well, now you were at the zoo- I’d have to say. Okay, you were to zoo from ’66, you came with Warren. Read More
To approximately 1968?… Read More
So that was kind of a short stint there. Yeah it was, but we had the, we did, we had built some things there. The ape house, we had built that. We built facilities, field facilities for some antelope, hoof animals. And now you felt it was time to leave… Read More
No they did that later, I guess. Read More
Did they build the, in the Eppley Pachyderm, that was a pachyderm facility opened at the zoo?… Read More
Did you have elephants at the zoo at Omaha?… Read More
Union Pacific, two miles of track?… Read More
Omaha?… Read More
Like a miniature railroad, or was not at that zoo?… Read More
Were you able to see other facilities that had great apes around the country to help your experience or not, or was- Well I had, since I had been working in zoos for a while, I used to go to, I did go to a lot of zoos and I… Read More
Did the Omaha Zoo build a little railroad while you were there?… Read More
Around the zoo, do you remember that?… Read More
So you were building on your experience that you had. Yes I was, I was building on the experience I had already had with them at Oklahoma City. Read More
Were you able to see other facilities to help determine this, around the country or- Excuse me, I’m sorry?… Read More
Now you indicated that you had hoped or at least the promise was made that, “We go to Omaha, we can make some changes.” Were you able to be part of changing things?… Read More
Well yeah, yes we did, we really did. I mean we did build a, we got some, there was money available and we did build, start to build a new zoo, and we built a number of things, a number of things. And one of the things that we built… Read More
And we did, we built it and it was a building and it was, I thought it was okay, I thought it was pretty good. The outside facility was very nice for the summer, and had some, you know, big climbing structures and grass. And inside we built some things… Read More