Okay. Speaking of famous people here. Anyhow, the reason I went back to St. Louis was because I had had a nostalgic feeling for the St. Louis Zoo, the zoo that where I had my start, and a zoo that was a very beautiful zoo, wonderful topography there, the grounds… Read More
You had good points but bad, and you kind of did some nice things with it, and I guess as all things are, you know, you left some for someone else to do, but picked up where someone else had left off, how come you decided to go to another… Read More
Yeah, I think in fact, in looking at that old kind scope of the gorilla show, it’s interesting how things progressed, Freeman, you asked Freeman Shelly, you said to Freeman, Freeman how old do you think a gorilla can get to be, it’s probably in the 50s, and Freeman thought… Read More
Yeah, I guess so, and maybe the television has something to do with that too, in fact they can see animals on television so well, and so close up, and the news part of television showed lots of animals. Now, a question, what made you, you came to this Lincoln… Read More
No, no, did he finally die?… Read More
Masa bamboo, some of those. Read More
Yeah, yeah, they were there and Bamboo is still alive, is he?… Read More
There was another famous animal here, Mike the polar bear. Mike the polar bear, that’s right. And he was a very large bear. he was a little over 10 feet tall when he stood up with the behind legs, and he was almost as tall as the top of the… Read More
Now, what else do you wanna know?… Read More
Right, that mean that that was done when you were here. Oh yeah, sure, yeah. I have to be nice, ’cause the camera girls see as one of our better keepers I have to. Yeah. Well, I highly approve of women working with animals as animal keepers, and some are… Read More
Yeah, there were some other children’s zoos, well, we had a keeper here named Lyman Carpenter, and Lyman was an artist and he was a doer, he could make any darn thing, so, we had a concept, I had a concept of a children zoo and we had no funds,… Read More
The nursery, the zoo nursery, and that was built on the floor of the lion house, and it was just a temporary structure, but it had glass windows, and we had, just the floor of the building below it, and we’d roll these cages out right up to the front,… Read More
Was this, obviously it was brand new for Lincoln Park. Read More
We talked about zoos and new things coming up, concepts and things like that, and you designed or built the first children’s zoo at Lincoln Park, how’d that come about, had there been many children zoos?… Read More
She was before?… Read More
Yeah. She was already here, but her history was a very interesting one, I’m sure you have it all down, but she came in to Virginia I believe, in a circus, was brought by a circus from Europe I believe also, mostly animals in those days came by road, Europe,… Read More
No, no, I wasn’t, she was here when I came. Read More
I’m sure you would. Read More
When we were talking about elephants before, you talked about Judy, you were involved when Judy came to Lincoln Park?… Read More
Oh, he’s been working on it. I don’t know if I should be mad at you though, because you should have started something in the mammal section. Oh, we caught mammals too. Well, I say, see, they had that tradition of snake hunting, they’re sending Eddie out every year, but… Read More