Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 192
So the cat could come in and out behind the bathtub. Read More
So the cat could come in and out behind the bathtub. Read More
He got our home donated, which was the upper floor of an army barracks. Eventually it was plumbed, but initially we would wash our dishes at spigots inside of the park and then walk back to the army barracks where we were living. Our son, Noah, had just been born,… Read More
Lived on it 24 hours. We built sidewalks so people could walk around, it used to be just pine straw, we built the sidewalks. And everything was donated. Pat was unbelievable at getting things donated. He was really… One of his strong suits has always been public relations. And he… Read More
Hard, easy, you lived on it 24 hours, where’d you live?… Read More
Yes. Read More
So now you get these animals to this new area far away from the beaten path, and you start to develop this new location?… Read More
Because we had crates ready and we had drugs ready, we had veterinarians ready, we had ropes ready, and I had some experience with moving animals in the past. Read More
Why?… Read More
Easy. Read More
Hard to move them, easy to move them?… Read More
Got new land from St. Regis. They’re the ones that gave us the possibility of 80 acres. We didn’t use 80 acres, but gave us the possibility. You worked with Frank Westmark. Frank Westmark was the public relations guy for St. Regis Paper Company, and he was a friend of… Read More
Then you got some new land, how’d you get new land?… Read More
Yeah. Read More
You got land from someone, you had to get animals. I had people who donated chain link fence or donated a building, in fact our feed building was donated. That’s where we’ve had to keep the feed and dry it and get the rats out. So we had some help… Read More
How did you go about developing the physical zoo?… Read More
We developed the zoo. Read More
So when you came back, there was a physical zoo or you developed the physical zoo?… Read More
I did a lot of radio, some TV about the zoo. I was like chewing gum and chicken shit, I was everywhere. Read More
Go back. Because the concept of the zoo in the first place came from my interest and trying to get a zoo there. So my heart was still in Pensacola, that was part of my dream, to get a zoo in Pensacola. Charlie Stokowski a veterinarian friend who had been… Read More
So you made the decision what, to go?… Read More