Interview 12600 – Caption Index: 108
No they did that later, I guess. Read More
No they did that later, I guess. Read More
Did they build the, in the Eppley Pachyderm, that was a pachyderm facility opened at the zoo?… Read More
Did you have elephants at the zoo at Omaha?… Read More
Union Pacific, two miles of track?… Read More
Omaha?… Read More
Like a miniature railroad, or was not at that zoo?… Read More
Were you able to see other facilities that had great apes around the country to help your experience or not, or was- Well I had, since I had been working in zoos for a while, I used to go to, I did go to a lot of zoos and I… Read More
Did the Omaha Zoo build a little railroad while you were there?… Read More
Around the zoo, do you remember that?… Read More
So you were building on your experience that you had. Yes I was, I was building on the experience I had already had with them at Oklahoma City. Read More
Were you able to see other facilities to help determine this, around the country or- Excuse me, I’m sorry?… Read More
Now you indicated that you had hoped or at least the promise was made that, “We go to Omaha, we can make some changes.” Were you able to be part of changing things?… Read More
Well yeah, yes we did, we really did. I mean we did build a, we got some, there was money available and we did build, start to build a new zoo, and we built a number of things, a number of things. And one of the things that we built… Read More
And we did, we built it and it was a building and it was, I thought it was okay, I thought it was pretty good. The outside facility was very nice for the summer, and had some, you know, big climbing structures and grass. And inside we built some things… Read More
It’s kinda, you know, okay where?… Read More
And Bird Dog lived in the apartment building that I lived in and I went to see him. His place, it was empty and he was gone. And it was because he couldn’t tolerate Warren Thomas. He couldn’t tolerate stuff that Thomas was doing to him. And that’s the way… Read More
I’m not positive of that, honestly. Read More
Was there an assistant director at the time, or were you the next guy after Warren?… Read More
No, I don’t, I can’t remember if Leroy Thomas was called assistant director or not. I honestly can’t remember. But he sort of, he functioned like it though. And Leroy had come from Oklahoma City with you. Yes. And Bird Dog did too. No it was, yeah that’s right, that’s… Read More
But Warren Thomas did have issues with dealing with people, and he, the person that was next to him usually bore the brunt of it. And even though Bird Dog knew what Warren was, because he had been with him in Oklahoma City too of course, he did agree to… Read More