Interview 12083 – Caption Index: 141
Or were you kind of like, “Hey, you know what to do.” Are you on your own? I mean are the?… Read More
Or were you kind of like, “Hey, you know what to do.” Are you on your own? I mean are the?… Read More
Reptile guy at hearts, yeah? (laughs) I had no, what do I do?… Read More
So I said to him, “I don’t know how to handle it. If you show me how to do it, all I need is one time, and then I’m good, but I need that.” All right. So he goes up and he, (grunting) I said, “Thank you very much.” He… Read More
And then later, when I booked it, I had to book it all over the place and it was fun. And I would go out and that part of my job was going out and talking with the people. Was ambassador for the zoo. I was ambassador for the zoo. Read More
No. Well, yes. In a way, she had. We would take the animals from the Children’s Zoo every day and load them up. And Pat Sass was, she, one of her father’s friends had homing pigeons and we would take, she would bring them down. We would take the homing… Read More
We would have milking, as a city kid, there had been one place where you could see this in the city called Hawthorn Mellody Farms which had long since come and gone, which you could see milking. So here at Lincoln Park Zoo, yeah, it was very popular. So another… Read More
Can you talk about that and how did that work?… Read More
Well, part of my job as zoologist was to run the traveling zoo and the traveling zoo was two units, ultimately, big bus units that would go out and go to senior citizens homes at the time, ’cause we were Park District, go to Park District day camps. That was… Read More
And that was one of my first jobs as a summer helper too, was to help bring the zoologist, the animals, so he could talk about them. And the first guy who I did that for was Saul Kitchener. And we had this, we had exotic animals. It wasn’t like… Read More
So how do you move animals that you have to?… Read More
Dairy cows and steers and things like that. Well, if it’s outside of the purview of the zoo, but on Park District land, you have a much freer methodology of moving and replacing animals. So when they had the livestock exposition at the amphitheater, I’m going back years, they would… Read More
Like a milking demonstration, I mean, who thought, you know, who knew, right?… Read More
What about the farm in the zoo?… Read More
What was the purpose of that?… Read More
Well, I think that the purpose at one level was that city kids had no idea where milk came, where eggs come from, and they had no idea about the rural type of farm environment that would as part of their lives, you know, “Where does milk come from?” “The… Read More
Well, I think what Lester Fisher’s vision was, which he started was to try within this small space, wasn’t getting bigger, to try and make better living conditions for the zoo. Read More
And what does that mean?… Read More
Well, it means to expand the spaces of the animals. So there was a lot of building going on, redoing the seal pool, sea lion pool, redoing the center of the zoo, making exhibits for the cats on the north side of the Lion House, which had never had outside… Read More
So they were more a development arm of the zoo?… Read More
At the time, they were. As later years went by and ultimately, the zoo privatized, they, at the time, the Zoo Society was paying half of the operating costs of the zoo. So it wasn’t just friends of the zoo, they were partners. And ultimately, they took over the governance… Read More