Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 624
Should we have a zoo?… Read More
Should we have a zoo?… Read More
No. Should there be? Yes. Zoos should be considered above and beyond politics because unlike the other cultural institutions, lives are vulnerable there. Read More
If we can’t cat take care of the zoo, what will happen to the animals?… Read More
Did politics affect the zoo? Of course. Did we have to respond? Of course. Read More
Is there anything different about that as a zoo?… Read More
Yes, indeed. Read More
Did you have to take efforts to avoid that or?… Read More
I’m afraid the waves coming over such an island would be high, but in fact, we have done so at least in my day. In no way, did the zoo ever declare on behalf of any particular politician. We tried to treat all as well as we could. Read More
Did politics ever start to affect the operation of the zoo?… Read More
It’s sometimes been said that a zoo should be a neutral island in a political sea, Did you try and keep the Bronx Zoo and the others neutral islands?… Read More
Should the zoo be a neutral island in a sea of polity?… Read More
What role did politicians play in the success of the zoo?… Read More
The politicians have been exceptionally important to zoo because the city has a long contributed to both its operating and capital budgets, sometimes very generously. Almost every year, the city seems to be in some sort of financial trouble. Then the politicians that care in particular for a particular institutions… Read More
Did the Bronx community embraced the zoo as their own?… Read More
But the Bronx community has been highly transitional and the, community that was there when I came was transitioning very rapidly, it was moving out entirely. It was a largely a big old, very zoo oriented Jewish community. And that has been largely replaced by immigrants coming in. On the… Read More
When I started paid advertising Laurance Rockefeller, who was chairman of the board at that time said, “What? We have to pay advertising to get people to the zoo?… Read More
That’s no good.” It took me a while to convince him, it had never been necessary before. But what had happened is that there were so many competing opportunities for people, it had become necessary. Read More
Were you as involved in the marketing?… Read More
Yes, I was. And I’ll tell you an interesting story in that regard, I started the marketing at the Bronx Zoo. There was no advertising program at all when I came. Read More
Is there a really super-duper imaginative program?… Read More