Interview 14192 – Caption Index: 86
And I said, well, why would you wanna leave your lucrative practice in Burwood and come be a zoo director for $10,500?… Read More
And I said, well, why would you wanna leave your lucrative practice in Burwood and come be a zoo director for $10,500?… Read More
But that must have been their concept, but it wasn’t correct, it wasn’t right that they should do that, and not increase the salary of the zoo director, ’cause how are you gonna hire somebody else take my place, when Les came he got more than I did right off… Read More
And then he came when I decided to go, he came over and talked to me about the possibility of being zoo director, and how did I feel about it?… Read More
Sure, sure, but having received this money, they were so shortsighted in not having me, and I think they felt that, well, he’s making money on television, why should we have to pay him anymore?… Read More
What prompted decision to leave Lincoln Park, and our part, that part of our history, and then go on to other things that were very nice, but what was the transition then?… Read More
Okay. Speaking of famous people here. Anyhow, the reason I went back to St. Louis was because I had had a nostalgic feeling for the St. Louis Zoo, the zoo that where I had my start, and a zoo that was a very beautiful zoo, wonderful topography there, the grounds… Read More
You had good points but bad, and you kind of did some nice things with it, and I guess as all things are, you know, you left some for someone else to do, but picked up where someone else had left off, how come you decided to go to another… Read More
Yeah, I think in fact, in looking at that old kind scope of the gorilla show, it’s interesting how things progressed, Freeman, you asked Freeman Shelly, you said to Freeman, Freeman how old do you think a gorilla can get to be, it’s probably in the 50s, and Freeman thought… Read More
Yeah, I guess so, and maybe the television has something to do with that too, in fact they can see animals on television so well, and so close up, and the news part of television showed lots of animals. Now, a question, what made you, you came to this Lincoln… Read More
No, no, did he finally die?… Read More
Masa bamboo, some of those. Read More
Yeah, yeah, they were there and Bamboo is still alive, is he?… Read More
There was another famous animal here, Mike the polar bear. Mike the polar bear, that’s right. And he was a very large bear. he was a little over 10 feet tall when he stood up with the behind legs, and he was almost as tall as the top of the… Read More
Now, what else do you wanna know?… Read More
Right, that mean that that was done when you were here. Oh yeah, sure, yeah. I have to be nice, ’cause the camera girls see as one of our better keepers I have to. Yeah. Well, I highly approve of women working with animals as animal keepers, and some are… Read More
Yeah, there were some other children’s zoos, well, we had a keeper here named Lyman Carpenter, and Lyman was an artist and he was a doer, he could make any darn thing, so, we had a concept, I had a concept of a children zoo and we had no funds,… Read More
The nursery, the zoo nursery, and that was built on the floor of the lion house, and it was just a temporary structure, but it had glass windows, and we had, just the floor of the building below it, and we’d roll these cages out right up to the front,… Read More
Was this, obviously it was brand new for Lincoln Park. Read More
We talked about zoos and new things coming up, concepts and things like that, and you designed or built the first children’s zoo at Lincoln Park, how’d that come about, had there been many children zoos?… Read More
She was before?… Read More