And one last thing that happened there was a tragedy. You, it’s in this, it’s in a, the county there, I’ll think of the county here in a minute, that Sanford was in, not orange county. Volusia County, I think, yeah. The courthouse caught on fire. That’s where the jail… Read More
Oh who cares?… Read More
I won’t edit this out, but you can use this, by the way, ’cause I don’t get to tell stories like this very often. So I put her in there with her shorts on, and she served cotton candy. Everybody liked to buy cotton candy there. I don’t know if… Read More
Anyway, that’s what we did. Read More
She had, she was nice. She had blonde hair. Read More
My wife’s a pretty lady, okay?… Read More
And she’s still pretty today. Read More
We’d been there for years, that have the monkeys, but I tore the wall out and made it bigger for the little elephant, hippo. And I put Rudolph Alexander on top of there twice a day. He’d do Chimp shows, you know, nothing beating chimps or anything else. He was… Read More
My wife would go in there, and she’s a nice looking woman. Read More
And I’m not saying she’s nice today, but I’m saying she was, what’s the word if I get in trouble here?… Read More
They’re just babies, right?… Read More
I just got a baby hippo, baby elephant. I figured that’d work. In the wild you see them not really play with each other. And they grew up together those three years, I was there. So Big and Fat Boy. So Big was the elephant. I had So Big Sandwich… Read More
And then I got, this is terrible, I know, but there was a guy named Rudolph Alexander, who was a chimp trainer. He just was in the area. I had about 20 chimps out of there. You know, he came from Austria. He was known in the circus world, he… Read More
You had all the barred cages with a tiger, a lion. I think a Jaguar, I don’t know. A big thing with peacocks and deer in it. Alligator pit, and then my idea was, to take this monkey island that was empty, and I got a hippo. And back then,… Read More
I found the elephant in Miami, all right?… Read More
A hippo. So I get the hippo. And then we get the baby elephant. I put the baby elephant and hippo together. Read More
Let me do that, and then I’ll go, I told you I jump around, all right?… Read More
And you can edit this whole thing. So yes, So I get, and I’ll come back to the thing with Julie, ’cause that changed our lives big time. So, therefore I get that opportunity, everybody, to go to Sanford, Florida, and you got to see a picture of this little… Read More
They had a moat they used to have monkeys on, right?… Read More
Now, you’re still, at that time you’re still working for Jim Fowler, or you’re at Sanford?… Read More