The world inventions; The history and the case of Kristiansand Zoo!
Kristiansand Zoo, often called for the Zoo, is a combined zoo and amusement park outside Kristiansand, in the country called for Agder, at the border to Lillesand, and Lillesand is a town, and it is located at the Skagerak coast. The park company was established in 1964, and the park opened officially in 1966. The park has developed itself to be the second most visited tourist attraction in Norway after The Holmenkollen area. And that is one of several gateways to Nordmarka, the beautiful landscape and area out in the nature that we are facing while we are here. And you know, the food that we can get from the soil, that is even a Nobel Prize of Knut Hamsun.
We are in the middle of 1961. The Beatles has just now come out of the clubs in Liverpool, and the world is blissfully ignorant that the US President now, John F. Kennedy, has just two more years to live with when considering his life from these lucky days in 1961.
We had a man with a hat in Kristiansand, and his name was Willi Tjomsaas, and he wanted to start a zoo in Kristiansand. The people who are knowing him, think that he is out of his mind. His wife Grethe has stopped shaking her head a long time ago. Willi has been in America and at sea, and he has run canoe rental and had an agency on floor sanders. But his life project with the zoo, there is nobody who is believing in! Willi Tjomsaas is rich on ideas, but not on money, and that is the situation for several of us, but we should use our opportunities and competence to get even better jobs than we have ever had until this day. But Willi does not give up due to the situation he is facing when being here in Kristiansand, the capital in the Southern part of Norway, with the facilities and the people on all levels to all places that we are meeting and seeing here. On a piece of paper, he has written down a list with names on business people in Kristiansand, and these persons have enough money! Willi is going from office to office, and he takes the hat off and on his head, but the list is getting shorter for every time he has visited a new person on the originally list! But the grass is growing and it is green, but there is not grass being greener on the other side, and hence we have the reality to perceive and to act within.
But Willi Tjomsaas thinks that the idea with a zoo in Kristiansand is great, and it is also possible, and eventually he makes contact with Kristian Haanes and Leif Haanes in Mosvold Shipping and in Mosnes Shipping, and Leif is a fresh lawyer, and he is just 29 years old, and he has reached to be father to number four. And Leif is meeting Willi by the reception, and he asked Willi: Was it a zoo you wanted and still want to have in Kristiansand?
They exchange a good handshake before parting, but nothing is giving of promises, and that is a good attitude of many things. And no wallet is opened. But the idea is sown, and just after Willi has gone from the offices to Leif Haanes, he is moving up in the second floor to talk to his cousin, Tor-Bjørn Mosvold. And this marks the beginning of Kristiansand Zoo, and Willi Tjomsaas knows that there should be attention and interest and desire and action for it in the business life, and Willi knows that we are needing investors to start a new adventure and business in Kristiansand, and you know, costs of different kinds of revenues of one kind or several kinds, that is how the zoo in Kristiansand, is trying to operate in the long run.
And today, the Kristiansand Zoo is visited by domestic and foreign persons when speaking about and taking care of Norway. And there are different animals in the zoo, like for instance snakes, monkeys, tigers, birds and camels, and some people are enjoying this zoo and amusement park, and they need to be there when enjoying and perceiving the life just as it is from day to day. And today, in 2024, there is a big draw in the chimpanzee called for Julius, and we are singing that he comes Julius that everyone of us needs to see and to visit.
You know, the zoo and the amusement park in Kristiansand are there for four reasons, and maybe we can discover and find more than four reasons. But we have the Kristiansand Zoo and the Amusement Park to take care of the species of the animals. And we also want to tell our stories about the park and the animals, how we are treating the animals if they are getting sick, and we have research on these things, and the last and the fourth thing is that we are having the zoo and the amusement park for recreation.
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