Interview 15334 – Caption Index: 193
How did the discovery, if at all, helped the zoo, and what role did George Gilbert play?… Read More
How did the discovery, if at all, helped the zoo, and what role did George Gilbert play?… Read More
The oceanarium site was so steep for the school, but perfect for the oceanarium because they overlooked beautiful point of land. So in 1964, the oceanarium finally was open, and my daughter, Marley, worked there from the second year, right up for more than 30 years. And the oceanarium has… Read More
What dolphin was discovered?… Read More
Where are you gonna get the money?… Read More
And, well, turned out the father’s PanAm connection was beneficial in terms of having friends that, one of Tap’s sisters was married to Lil Thomas Jr., and there were a number of tie-ins with, again, the people that could help finance the oceanarium. So that hurdle was not as difficult… Read More
And do you have location? What do you want to do?… Read More
So I’d read those, and I knew about him and I said, “Wow, that’s great.” And then I said, “Well, what do you guys have in mind?” And she said, “Well, Chuck Bogart said that you could help us.” And I said, “Well, okay, what do you wanna do?” And… Read More
And so I said, well, sure, I’ll help any way I can. I said to her the same thing Mrs. Benchley said to me. Let’s get together, let’s talk about it. Read More
What was your involvement in developing Sea Life Park?… Read More
With Sea Life, that was a fascinating thing. One afternoon in the ’50s, a young couple with two little boys, toe-headed kids came in. The couple were in their early 20s or mid 20s, and they’d called and made an appointment. And so we met out on the lawn. And… Read More
Students have gotten, used that site to study for their degrees. And so this, our bird keeper from the Honolulu Zoo joined this group that was led by the curator, Allen Allison at the bishop museum. And Allen helped establish at the, this Wau biological station collecting area with the… Read More
And this is the important conservation measure. It’s not just to have a lot of birds of paradise. She has negotiated with, I believe, almost a dozen, eight different other zoos, particularly San Diego Wild Animal Park has been her closest cooperator, and New York to exchange birds-of-paradise that she’s… Read More
The only difficulty by then, her male, her mate had died. And it was a time that we only had that one pair of blues. And by the time we got any more blue birds-of-paradise from Sir Edward, that bird had quit laying. So the eggs of course were sterile,… Read More
Were you successful in doing anything with the birds of paradise?… Read More
No, that our zoo is hugely successful in raising birds of paradise, but not at the time I was director. We built the collection up to the largest it ever reached. It was the largest collection in the nation, was after I brought these 15 birds of paradise in from… Read More
But the bird was hail and hardy, and the head of the airline guy, this was Bill Malay at that time, and he was the PanAm cargo general manager. Bill came out and a new Zealander named George Monroe, who was then in his 80s, the grand old man of… Read More
And it was a cleverly written thing. Essentially it was a tea party given with this, for this bird, in it’s one day in Hawaii. You had mentioned Sir Edmund Holmstrom and giving you birds of paradise. Read More
And we had several hundred earth worms that we’d collected. And so we had to dispose of those worms that came through with the, not the worms, but the soil that came through from New Zealand also. So as the crate was handed to me by the cargo manager out… Read More
And Ernie studied, he asked about the connections between when PanAm stopped in the West Coast, what happened from there to New York. And David told him, and Ernie said, “Now, wait, let me see.” And he asked his schedulers, and they were able to arrange, change the flight that… Read More
And he sent the Kiwis through the San Diego, named the kiwi Belle for Belle Benchley. Turned out to be a male, but they had it misidentified it as so frequently happens. But the important thing, when that kiwi came through, When I received the crate, and in that particular… Read More