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
No, at this point, I’ve now left Sanford on, remember that zoo, we wanna go back, and talk more of that zoo part maybe?… Read More
I called my buddies, “Where do I go see?” Went to Children’s Hospital in Knoxville. They took her right away. Her big old mosquito bites. She had a little teeny one that night, was like this big on her leg. All of a sudden they did this saying, “Jack, we’re… Read More
“Do you know anybody has a jet?” I said, “I, no one’s got a jet.” So I called a buddy who knew a buddy. He came in there and got a twin engine plane. We put Julie in the plane. Now, remember, I’ll only been back 24 hours. We fly… Read More
Here we are again. Read More
‘Cause I already built the zoo in Knoxville. I wanted to go back to the Knoxville, maybe see help at that zoo. Now, I could live there and promote this movie around the Southeast. Well, I tried that, the day we moved, I tried that about two weeks. Then we… Read More
At that point, we just lived in that house. And then Julie, my daughter, is where our life changed again. I mean what Dr. Chesney told me. About we wake up that morning, hadn’t even unpacked the boxes. Got in that night before. Her temperature’s over, right at 106. And… Read More
I got four of my buddies put in 25, we all lost it. Read More
Anyway, so I had to go out and promote that movie, right?… Read More
They were already starting to build a new one, all right?… Read More
But then I went out and talked to people, raised some money, more money for them. I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. And then we moved the zoo to the new site, the Central Florida Zoo is on today, because it was very small. I could, took… Read More
You don’t ever borrow money invest in anything, but I borrowed 25,000?… Read More
That’s how I did get Daisy ’cause I saw that movie. And, so anyway, so we go back over there, and we’re in a trailer, you know, we did our wash and put the, put our drain in a tub and the dryer, and animals everywhere. I got to take… Read More