And so I went down and interviewed him and quite by coincidence, he was also the part-time vet at the Cleveland Zoo. And so after I interviewed him I thought that’s pretty neat. I wrote my theme. I wanted to be a veterinarian. And then I went back and volunteered… Read More
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Okay, I’m Dr. Gordon Hubblle. I was born and raised in the west side of Cleveland suburbs, born in Lakewood, raised in Fairview Park. And I went to college at Ohio State studied veterinary medicine. Actually I got my interest in wild animals I guess, back in junior high school. Read More
That’s an interesting concept for animals and captivity, for feeding them and things like that. Okay, thank you on that, I think that’ll be that, I think we got enough of that. But I like to, if you’re still rolling, I like to had one more word. Go ahead, and… Read More
Well, the best way to learn how to take care of elephants is to work with an elephant man who’s had experience, and we had an old man here, an old trainer, an old, he was an old man, and he’d had some injuries too from elephants, and his name… Read More
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We’re are having bit here, that when you’ve been around a lot of zoo animals, but you’ve been around elephants a lot in your career as a zoo director, if you had to tell me a young novice starting out working, wanting to work with elephants, what advice could you… Read More
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Well, that’d be a nice thing, sure, absolutely. I think first thing I’d like to talk about is that. Read More
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It’s was in the early mornings and at night, though sometimes they would let the young cats out, not the tiny babies but the others for exercise. Well, I’d here, that’s a very good policy, that’s not too tough a job too. Yeah, I’ll tell you something else that Lyman… Read More
He says, no. And so, anyhow, he worked out something on that, and he’s made a tremendous success, I think he was the best possible choice for this, and I think everybody would agree because Les has done great things for this zoo. Well, I wanna thank you for your… Read More
Well, that my concept on that, let’s go back to that just for a minute, if you got any more time. We got time. My concept was that, there is no place in the country where you can learn to be a zoo man except in a zoo, and I… Read More
I said, can you live on that?… Read More
And I said, well, why would you wanna leave your lucrative practice in Burwood and come be a zoo director for $10,500?… Read More
But that must have been their concept, but it wasn’t correct, it wasn’t right that they should do that, and not increase the salary of the zoo director, ’cause how are you gonna hire somebody else take my place, when Les came he got more than I did right off… Read More
And then he came when I decided to go, he came over and talked to me about the possibility of being zoo director, and how did I feel about it?… Read More
Sure, sure, but having received this money, they were so shortsighted in not having me, and I think they felt that, well, he’s making money on television, why should we have to pay him anymore?… Read More
What prompted decision to leave Lincoln Park, and our part, that part of our history, and then go on to other things that were very nice, but what was the transition then?… Read More