Interview 14294 – Caption Index: 23
No. He was a student. He was in my class, and he had worked there as a part-time keeper. So you’re both there as part-time keepers. Yeah. Okay. Read More
No. He was a student. He was in my class, and he had worked there as a part-time keeper. So you’re both there as part-time keepers. Yeah. Okay. Read More
I also did little work in the reptile house, and some of the other parts of the zoo, but mainly the birdhouse. So you had a relationship with (indistinct). Read More
There was nobody there. So I walked all through the building and there was nobody in the building (chuckles). And I came back and I noticed there was an African gray parrot sitting on a perch right by the back door. And he apparently was the one that said that. Read More
And what did you do as a part-time keeper?… Read More
Well, (chuckles) the first day I came in, I was told to report at six o’clock in the morning and it was pitch dark. It was March, 1960. Let’s see, no 1957. And the head keep there, gave me the keys to the birdhouse and he said go over to… Read More
I think mainly through Warren Thomas, who was working there. Had worked there for several years. And I can’t recall exactly, I know I went out and applied for it. Talked to Earl Davis, the director of the zoo. And Earl was an interesting guy too. A politician, he was… Read More
And I rode around to different zoos and they all said, no (indistinct). The second year, well, I went off into practicing in smaller practice in Cincinnati, but I worked for the fellow who was the part-time veterinarian for the Cincinnati Zoo. And he was an alcoholic, and didn’t show… Read More
And so on the weekends, how’d you get this job as a part-time keeper at the Columbus Zoo?… Read More
No, not at all. And today I really don’t enjoy flying that much (chuckles). Now you indicated you had to write a paper and you interviewed veterinarian. That was the spark that you thought, wait a minute, this is something I’m interested in. That was the spark that got me… Read More
Did that peak your interest that you wanted to be a flyer?… Read More
So you were exposed to airplanes at a young age. Oh yeah, we used to go out and fly almost every weekend. Read More
My father was a commercial artist, a rather famous one. He painted aviation pictures. He was commissioned each year to go out to Cleveland National Air Races and take pictures of the planes that were qualifying and then paint a painting of the winner. And during that time we got… Read More
This one engine was on fire and so he couldn’t slow down. So he flew around the entire airport, probably about 10 feet off the runway trying to slow down. And finally belly landed right in front of us. And the airplane slid across the runway into a fence and… Read More
What’d your parents do?… Read More
Yeah, and bats too. I loved bats when I was a kid, and we knew an area where there was a big tunnel under the road that big brown bats used to hibernate in the winter time. So I would go down there and pull a couple off the wall… Read More
Were you a kid who brought snakes home?… Read More
How’d you get that interest?… Read More
People just brought them in to me. It was usually a bird with a broken wing or something like that. And quite often the animals that we got were not salvageable. They just were so far gone that they didn’t survive. But it was interesting anyway, taking care of these… Read More
And when you said you were doing animals or taking care of them in the neighborhood, were you collecting animals when they were sick or people were bringing them to you?… Read More
Oh, I was born February 28th, 1935. Read More