Interview 16470 – Caption Index: 241
No, well, they told me we needed- They were surplus, weren’t they?… Read More
No, well, they told me we needed- They were surplus, weren’t they?… Read More
Did you make the decision you needed animals?… Read More
Did they tell you to go get animals?… Read More
I went to Africa and came back with some rhinos and zebras, yes. Tell me about that. Read More
Well, now at the Lion Country, you had to get animals for Lion Country?… Read More
And he said, “Oh, he’s doing good.” I said, “When did he die?” He said, “He’s not dead.” I said, “He’s dead.” He went in there to water and do something in the pen and didn’t even notice the animal was dead. Read More
I said, “How’s that wildebeest doing down there?… Read More
He was drunk all the time. He had to run the water wagon in Benson’s Animal Park, he’d fill up the water wagon. He draws that wagon around and I watched him do it one day. And here’s an animal lying on the ground dead, and he goes by puts… Read More
I remember had a guy when I was at Benson’s Animal Park, his name was, what was his name?… Read More
Well, I geared everything on the condition of the animals and the condition of the paddocks and pens, and if they weren’t right, I wasn’t happy. Read More
How did you find them?… Read More
Because now you’re a manager of all these people or a couple of people at least. Read More
Or how did you find the management?… Read More
Was it like the camps when you were doing it?… Read More
What was your management style to run that organization of those people working?… Read More
Let me ask, before we go to Africa, let me ask the question about your zoo director for a Lion Country in California. You have people now, you’re the director, you have people working for you. Read More
Do you remember that?… Read More
If they did that, you would take them to Africa for their laboratory classroom. At that time, we’d spend three weeks in Africa, and I was with the first group in ’73. We spent half the time in South Africa and half the time in East Africa. This is in… Read More
One of the great things with Pat at Lion Country Safari, so many things, but one of them was that he was, the drug companies had asked him to do experimentation, it was in the early stages of a lot of immobilizaton drugs. Pat had the opportunity of working with… Read More
Lion Country was a- Corporate. Lion Country was an innovator of the open drive through parks. Lion Country was owned by South Africans. Harry Schuster. Harris Schuster, Monte Copel and one other guy, and they were south Africans and they had a line park in South Africa, they developed one… Read More