Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 212
And he offered you a much better salary. Zoological Society was not able to pay much. Read More
And he offered you a much better salary. Zoological Society was not able to pay much. Read More
So, where was I?… Read More
Because a fellow by the name of Bill York was bringing the Northern white rhino, the only one in North America, bringing it through to take it to San Diego Zoo. That’s right. To mate up with a female northern white rhino. So he came through and he stopped over. Read More
What happened?… Read More
Why did you leave?… Read More
Now, you’re at the zoo, you’re running it, you’re trying to build it, but then why did you leave the zoo, the Northwest Florida Zoological?… Read More
No, he was just a kid. No, but I say it wasn’t the same person. Was his name Lee Simmons? No, Simmons. I don’t think so, I think Lee Simmons, I don’t think his name is Lee. So you were able to protect this guy. Yeah. Read More
Was the gentleman who became Dr. Lee Simmons?… Read More
Yeah. A volunteer, we had lots of volunteers. Pat had a docent program. He had a docent program and he had lots of women that were from the Garden Club from, oh gosh, Flower club. Now, you mentioned this gentleman’s name was Lee Simmons. Yes. Read More
Now, this was someone who worked for you?… Read More
So I go, I jump the fence, hook myself on the fence and cut myself under here on the wire trying to get over to… I took a two by four about eight feet long, and I hit that damn camel from top to him and it broke the two… Read More
Dr. Bud Pugh took you to the hospital, told me not to worry, I had to stay at the house with Noah. He took you to the hospital. So he took me to the hospital and had an accident. Doctor says, “What happened to you?” I said, “Well, the ostrich… Read More
We had white tail wildebeest, we had ostrich, we had- Camels. Had emu and had two camels. Oh, tell them about your incident with the ostrich. I was herding some ostrich down on a hill. It was supposed to be real cold that night or whatever it was. As I… Read More
And we had what cats?… Read More
They were on loan from Brian Hunt. Brian Hunt. And we could lay down with those hyenas, we could go into the pen with them, remember, and sit down on the ground with them. They’d walk around the zoo. Read More
The Hyenas, were they from Brian?… Read More
Well, some like the bear were donated Sun bear. Some people had a sun bear that they didn’t want anymore. Read More
How did you acquire the animals for this new zoo?… Read More
I had a pet screech owl and the screech owl would fly up into the rafters of the ceiling of the barracks in the daytime and then come down at night. But he was a funny little screech owl, we named him Owly. Very original name, afraid of dark. The… Read More
There was a big hole in the ceiling, you remember that?… Read More