Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 281
A lot of employees. Read More
A lot of employees. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Yeah, Lion Country was pretty popular, there was two of them. A lot of employees. Read More
Was this a very popular place?… Read More
Yes. Read More
Now, was there a good attendance?… Read More
Well, it didn’t happen often. Well you got interaction, you get animals in heat, you get males fighting. So all that stuff takes place, that happens in the wild. It’s not like you’re portion feeding an animal in one cage that you do four pounds of feed for every day. Read More
What were some of those differences that you saw, aside from the people getting their heads?… Read More
Oh yeah, we’d meet conferences, we talked. We would visit other places too and we’d get different ideas from each other. Now there are different problems in an open air, safari-like atmosphere than there are in what I would call a zoo that has caging. Read More
Would you talk with other directors of zoos?… Read More
Frank Todd was the curator of bird for SeaWorld. He was the one that ran the penguin show of it, handled all the birds, a good on waterfowl. Read More
Huh?… Read More
Would you tell us who Frank Todd is?… Read More
I’d go to veterinarian friends, number one. Also I had friends in the industry that. Frank Todd, you would call. Frank Todd was a good friend of mine. It was a vet that you would call that would fly, I don’t know what his name was. He used to fly… Read More
And if you had problems or issues, who did you go to in the zoo community that you respected?… Read More
As director, did you have people you would talk with?… Read More
So you are running the zoological attraction, you’re a member of AZA?… Read More
It was popular because there was no other place doing something like that. And it was expensive to run. I bought shares in the company and the shares went up from what, went up to $28 or something like that. Her dad bought shares and he sold it, I didn’t. Read More
Was Lion Country popular or was Disney popular?… Read More
Now, how difficult was it competing with other attractions in California?… Read More