The Godfather — Marlin Perkins
Circa 1964, when I was a freshman at Jesuit High in Tampa, my dad worked at Busch Gardens. Back then there was no monorail, no rides—just the brewery and a dream called the African Veldt. August Busch had hired Marlin Perkins of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom as Animal Director to build it out. That’s … Read more