And Archie was a hard worker. Father died when Archibald was 18. Archibald continued the store, became friendly with the King Kalakaua, married the king’s younger sister, Miriam, who owned a great deal of land and some homes in this Kapi’olani area. And one of Archibald Clayhorn’s achievements was planting… Read More
And how important was landscaping in the zoo to you?… Read More
They just were there for hundreds of years and they grew?… Read More
You planted them? You saw them planted?… Read More
Do you know anything about the history of those particular banyan trees?… Read More
At that time, they were trolleys of rubber-tired trolley, buses, and what they did was turn the electricity off on their electric, the conductors that that would power the electric motors. And the electric company guys met us and the police officers. And everybody was just happy as clams to… Read More
So basically three times the population of the city in that year, which is interesting. It’s almost the same attendance right today. And Honolulu has tripled in size and we have 7 million tourists a year. I have one kind of technical question and I don’t want to lose it… Read More
The voyage was at, again, November. It was storming as the Pacific very often is, in November. But not that bad, the ship rolled a lot. But the main thing is I knew that ship. And again, since it was the same whole type, 500-foot long, C3 Navy transport. So… Read More
You’re in the middle. So whatever action, either rolling or pitching, you’re as stable as you’re ever gonna be in that center part of the ship, just so-called after the superstructure. And we put the animals, the tricky, the ones, particularly Rusty, right in the very center. So his action… Read More
Feeding and watering- Oh, but that part, after going under that bridge, the bridge was the hard part, I tell you. That was the part that was totally entirely in the hands of Gabe Davis and his skill as an animal trainer, and that would’ve, giraffe being bleeding to death… Read More
But the voyage?… Read More
It’s yourself and someone. Just one other guy. But the main thing is, you see, on the ship also, I had the rapport with the people on the ship. And the ship happened to had been the identical ship that I was on, the same class ship that I was… Read More
And you were responsible for the care of those animals for one week?… Read More
So now you’ve got the animals on the ship, and how many people?… Read More
And the noise of the winches and the pulleys, and were screeching. And I talked to each of the two forklift drivers and I said, “Hey fellas, please be really careful of these crates of animals. Two things, go real slow, don’t bang them, and the other, that giraffe could… Read More
And I was with the one of our animal keeper foreman, Gary (indistinct), he accompanied on that trip to help, and the truck driver of our truck and Gabe Davis. And we all had, I said, “Hey, folks, let’s have a quick celebration here, a pre-Thanksgiving celebration. And I want… Read More
And simultaneously was up, going up from San Diego to Los Angeles Harbor. Louis was coming down with his trucks, Louis Goebel from Goebel Land Farm up in Thousand Oaks with our elephant. And this is where the term that you hear now is networking. Animal dealers had sent, Warren… Read More
And we’d gone previously to arrange all the military experience that I’d acquired on ships in the Navy and unloading troops. Came to good stead in this because we’d gone ahead, I’d gone ahead, talked to the Matson people. We negotiated a big shed that had a high enough roof… Read More
So Gabe was at the top of the crate, hanging onto the ladder. I was handing Gabe, I was doing, I had two functions. To hand Gabe more onions, they were chopped. And to relay, I was below Gabe on the tray, relay the instructions from Gabe to the truck… Read More
Gabe continued, just as he had trained him, “Steady, Rusty, steady, head down, head down,” and we got under that bridge successfully. And that was the biggest breakthrough in that whole trip. Because from then on, we got on the ship. It was in the winter, it was November. The… Read More