And the signs were so huge. You’re never gonna sit there and read a sign, watch the average visitor, how about long he reads a sign. You go ahead with my zoo right now and watch it. If you see somebody reading a sign more than two minutes, I’ll personally… Read More
There’s an eye, the eye that the brain can comprehend in maybe 10 seconds. But this thing down there was a disaster, period. The money was wasted. Now, as we do these things, like our children’s zoo, up here, up in here, we have more of an interactive, fun thing. Read More
Make sure you have, especially big as this place is, we just got directional signs, what, two years ago, I think?… Read More
The TV thing had started and somebody else would run the zoo. And I got, and I saw this, so I went there, and said “What in the fire?” But before opened, right before it opened. “What is that stuff?” “Oh, that’s for everybody to learn “with inside the building.”… Read More
Now, if it’s done it in a way that, now we do it much differently, I’m talking 15 years ago, okay?… Read More
That was all in, you know, the stuff was all starting in zoos, right?… Read More
And at that point, this always fell back to that, you know?… Read More
Why would people come here?… Read More
We had signs, you know how signs were at the zoo world at first. We had the little animal and the little kid. Then all of a sudden we start writing signs as big as that dadgum thing over there. You know, oh I shouldn’t say this. We have the… Read More
He told him to repaint the barn. And Lloyd went up there and almost started crying. I’ll never forget as long as I ever live. Read More
You talk about education?… Read More
He literally didn’t wanna tell me, ’cause I went up there. I said, “Lloyd, here’s the paint, right in this can.” He goes, “I’m sorry, Jack, you don’t know this. “I never told your dad ’cause he’ll fire me. “I can’t read.” I said, “What? you can’t read?” And at… Read More
A guy would be on a farm, never knew he couldn’t read or write. He could write, but he didn’t, actually nobody ever saw him write. But he couldn’t read. So he started painting a barn. It was yellow, and not the red color my dad wanted. And he had… Read More
Like, “What is that, Lloyd, for God’s sakes?… Read More
You kidding me?… Read More
What education was to the man that worked on our farm and helped us on our farm, Lloyd Hinkel, who’s now been dead for 25 years. I never forget, as long as I live. My dad said, “Lloyd, go up there and paint the barn. “The paint’s up there on… Read More
Can you imagine that?… Read More
I gotta have an assistant. I have some teachers. Then he got the teacher, then he got the classes. Then we got the high school, have several high school class here now. We have campers from age three-years-old, like a lot of zoos, ours really takes it to the level… Read More
Is that when you saw the value of education?… Read More
Oh yeah. No, no,I always saw the value of education. I always knew just from being raised in Tennessee. Read More