Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 286
What is it And, and how did it come into being and what was your philosophy?… Read More
What is it And, and how did it come into being and what was your philosophy?… Read More
People would pay money for it if it was done in the right way. And I started with the, with the bo, with the draft barn. So I built a much bigger draft barn than I designed a Disney or a in Miami, because I learned that, yeah, you, you… Read More
Well, I was, if you know Rick Bargi, I’m not gonna retire until I die. You know, it’s just not in my DNA. And I was young enough, and I had been thinking about this for a long time, and we had the right piece of property to do it. Read More
And number one, can you kind of go through why did you not retire?… Read More
Why did you open up this, this new facility?… Read More
He goes, well, I heard the door close. No, you wait till I tell you that. I mean, you gotta be, sometimes it’s just luck. Now you, you, in, in 2015, you leave Houston Zoo, you do some zoo consulting, but ultimately in 2019, you open up your own place. Read More
And I carefully put the lock on I, and I said, Malcolm, what the, you did, you just do?… Read More
I’m trying to think of in Miami, a funny story. We had, we opened up the TIC exhibit and the tic is a small animal. They’re called tic because they’re, they, they, when they vocalize it sounds, so, it sounds like dick, Dick. So they’re called dick, Dick, DIK, DIK. Read More
And she was pa pissed, but we had to just check the cubs and clean up. And so I did that, and he’s over on the other side, and he hears the door closed and he lets mom in. She comes in. I hadn’t locked the door, and the door… Read More
He goes, Rick, Rick, we got a problem over the dick, Dick. He said, but we got one dick on the paddock and one dick in the moat. He thought, he thought we called him dick, Dick. ’cause it was two of ’em. It just sounded pretty funny on the… Read More
Yeah, a few, I guess in Miami, one day, one night, our male Malayan taper got out and he was, he’s a nasty animal. He, and he was out on the walkway. The public wasn’t there. And I can remember being in the back of a cart and, you know,… Read More
You’ve had to, have you had to deal with animal scapes in your career?… Read More
Certainly at Houston Zoo? Any stories?… Read More
It’s, it’s essential that you do that and not think that you can resolve everything with your staff and it, and, and sometimes you have animal staff to think, you know, we can design this. We, we know our animals better than anybody else. Yeah. But you need to look… Read More
Definitely. I think I, it, it definitely influenced me. No matter how good you think your zoo is, there’s always a zoo out there that does something better. They may do a lot of things not as good as you, but you can always take away some, there’s always something… Read More
Well, no matter what you do, some people are gonna look at the signs and some, aren’t you, there are better signs than others. Again, we don’t use signage. We don’t need signage at, at, at long neck manner. ’cause we can deliver all of one-on-one. But when you can’t… Read More
Has that helped to shape your overall philosophy?… Read More
But I, I’m, I’m fine. I think you need, you know, in, in traditional zoos or big zoos, you, there are, you need the tech nowadays you can just scan the QR code and get everything. So I’m not so sure how sign, how the future of signage and zoos,… Read More
They, they loved the zoo from the beginning. It, it, it was a, even when it was not a very good zoo or a decaying zoo, you know, the stroller moms were in there every morning. It was, it, it, there was no opposition to the zoo other than, well… Read More
What do you think one needs to think about in designing signage for animal exhibits?… Read More