Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 301
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Did they leave things in your hands?… Read More
No, my boss boss basically was Harry Schuster, the president, the owner of the park. Read More
Who were your bosses, this Mr. York?… Read More
So who did you answer to?… Read More
I tried to move Bubbles and I had a four wheel drive Jeep and I had a rope on her and I was trying to pull her out. Guess what, I was sitting in water up to my nose. She pulled a whole damn Jeep and me inside in the… Read More
Yeah, I had capybaras get out at Lion Country in California. And people were saying, “Oh my God, what a rat.” And they were breeding, these capybaras. And Toticos were breeding there and marabous were breeding there. And you got cheetahs to breed there. I got got the second litter… Read More
Remember when the capybaras got out?… Read More
Schroeder, yeah. You remember when the- Charlie Schroeder. Read More
Dr. Schroeder?… Read More
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Schroeder?… Read More
It was… Well, that guy with the beard, he was a good. He was there for years, I can’t think of his name. Read More
Who was the director of the San Diego zoo that you worked with?… Read More
Oh yeah. And we were always moving things around, we were always bringing new things in. We brought in Hylobares lar, which is the dwarf gibbons from a special island in Asia. They came in with a shipment of Gibbons, but he was a siamang, but a dwarf siamang and… Read More
Did they listen to what you had to say?… Read More
Were they consulting with you?… Read More
Now, were you charged with continuing to build the zoo and continuing to have new attractions or bring animals in?… Read More
Yeah. Public relations. You would have disagreements sometimes, I remember with public relations because public relations was interested in the publicity of it. Sensational. Sensationalism And that’s his job, but he was more interested in sensational stuff, and that may not be very healthy for animals. But he didn’t know… Read More
PR Jerry Coburn, he was the head of PR, right?… Read More