Well, they probably get wet, maybe it’s good for them to get wet, so he tried with the holes first and Bushman loved it, and so then he had, had a sprinkler system put in, where like a shower bath up at the top of the cage, and he used… Read More
So he very stealth fully, crept in there, safely opened this and reached in to get a bunch of grapes, and as he put the lid down he looked up and there was Bushman on the stairs, so Leo just turned and ran to the other side of the building,… Read More
Well, what do gorillas do when it rains?… Read More
Well, naturally old Paul Buck fell in love with Bushman and immediately he thought what a fine physical specimen he was, and how well oriented and imprinted he was to the people, and he decided that he would like to try and buy him. Well, at first, they didn’t want… Read More
Well, ’cause I think so because some of your original film of the zoo right segment shows him in ’28 in Africa. Yes, that’s right. As a youngster. Yes, that’s right. So. Classic footage. Yeah, well, Bushman was, just a fine physical specimen, and Eddie Robinson was his keeper, he… Read More
Well, I think he was captured in ’28 and brought here in ’30, wasn’t he?… Read More
Anyhow, Bushman became quite an institution within his own here in the zoo, but he was already here when I came here, and he was already a full grown gorilla when I came here in 1944, ’cause he came in here I think in 1930, Didn’t he?… Read More
2830 or something 28 maybe. Read More
Internationally, I don’t know. I don’t know either. Read More
How many girl has had their picture on the paper when they’ve died?… Read More
Yes, indeed. Read More
Leo Grimmer, yes. Yes, he was. Actually, many of them have gone on to other many zoo, zoo professions. That’s right, Leo quit here to go to Washington DC, to be assistant director there, and then he got tired of zoo work or something, and he decided he would retire… Read More
Yeah, for a lot of young professionals. yeah, yeah. In the beginning, we talk about the grade eight collection at Lincoln Park being world famous, and of course it got started one point, it didn’t become world famous overnight, nothing does. No, no. You were instrumental in starting some of… Read More
And was the first assistant director Leo Grimmer?… Read More
Well, yeah, but before I had an assistant director, I started with a zoologist, we got run Blakely and was a zoologist when he graduated from Michigan state and I was able to get a title in the budget, and I thought we’d better start with somebody and train them… Read More
That was Richie Allan, Rich was a good head keeper, type fellow, and he made the guys to the mark. And when he told him something, he reinforced it with a four finger, and now you remember, he had a pretty strong German accent and he was a good guy,… Read More
So you really started to acquire professional people, when you were here at Lincoln Park Zoo, am I correct that the first assistant director was under you?… Read More
Was that gentleman Richie Allan?… Read More
I found an old time city zoo that had grown up just like Topsy, and if you look at the old records of the Lincoln Park Zoo, you will see that somebody gave a bear to the zoo, or to the park. Actually, the first animals in the zoo, according… Read More
Oh, I had many words of wisdom from Floyd, he gave me a lot of background on the zoo itself, and how the Chicago Park District operates and all the various departments, such as the electrical department is separate, and they were, at that time, I suppose they may still… Read More