Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 521
If I was a young director, what would you tell me?… Read More
If I was a young director, what would you tell me?… Read More
How important is the marketing?… Read More
That’s what makes you, that’s what pays your bills, the community, they come into the zoo. So I’m out there in the public all the time. Because she’s in theater, I’m involved with rotary, I’m Paul Harris fellow, I’m involved with tourist development. He did years of public speaking. Tourist… Read More
How important was the community to the success of the zoo, the community support?… Read More
I think he probably should know his limitations because I had some limitations, financial, I’m not a financial person. I think you’ve got to like people, you have to love people. Because you’re dealing with people all the time, either the staff or the public. And if you haven’t got… Read More
What would you consider, based on your experience, to be important things that a zoo director should know today?… Read More
And board choice perhaps. But they tried, they tried, and then we had to take the park back and put it up for sale, close it. 1,000 questions come to mind, so let me try and get 1, 2, 3. Number one, just on what you’ve talked about, I’m gonna… Read More
There was a time when the zoo was run by society and it went to hell in a hand basket, when the society had it. That was another dream that the board had, is that someday we would be able to hand the zoo over. We were a for-profit, but… Read More
But I would call people and say, “Look, we’re gonna pay you.” But I had to Rob Peter to pay Paul and that kind of thing. I had no background in financial aspects either. Our board, there were six of us, six investors, they gave me the title of controller. Read More
Or how were we gonna make the bank payment that month?… Read More
Oh no, how were we gonna make a payroll?… Read More
I knew when the bills couldn’t be paid, I was the person that knew how are we gonna make a payroll?… Read More
My job, I wish I had been just a keeper. So if I had it all to do over again, I would’ve been a keeper. I’ve had some great experiences raising animals like bears and antelope and things like that. But I had to get away from that, and that… Read More
I read that to pat and he said that he wished that he had had more of a financial background, that he had been stronger in the area of- Finance. Finance, area of finance, which he wasn’t. I dealt a lot with my heart. And because we had to do… Read More
It was just, like pat said, one of your questions that you had sent us was if you had something to do over, what would you do?… Read More
No. It’s like being in love with her, I never fell out of love with her, and I’ve been there with her for over 45 years. I think our dream was, one of our dreams, was that we would have been there till we passed. It’s a legacy that we… Read More
You loved it?… Read More
No, never. Read More
After a number of years at The Zoo, that you had built, did the glamor wear off ever or not?… Read More
But I bought him one that says, Pat Quinn The Zoo. So he’s in concrete, we’re both in concrete in front of the Little Theater. But we do that because we wanna help Eric. He keeps brochures in his car, everywhere we go, if we go out to dinner, whatever… Read More