Others joined Haast. ''At 95, he doesn't like to do anything that takes time away from his lab work,'' added his wife. My brother was always over there buying, trading snakes. Feature Vignette: Analytics. Great memories. Lee Martines - Growing up in Miami in the 40s and 50s I would visit the Serpentarium every couple of years and always marveled at the variety of snakes and the process of extracting the venom from the poisonous ones. The Miami Serpentarium, an early Florida roadside tourist attraction, was once located on this site. He was born in 1910 in Paterson, N.J., to German-American parents -- his father was a mechanic, his mom a housewife. That photo is one of my favorite collectables. Serpentarium's Hasst, 100, Has Died - CryptoZooNews I helped the staff along with about 6-8 other visitors in straightening out the snake (as much as he would let us), to be measured. We would eat the snakes, along with all the fish and snapping turtles we could catch from the Lakeland area lakes. It had been bit my Cookie while trying to stop Cookie from getting out on US1.Also their pet lion jumped across the roof of the Shelby and the chain scratched the roof. Teen boy shot dead at a Miami area trailer park, cops say | Miami Herald The medical examiner . He caught his first garter snake at 7 at a nearby canal. We considered him the Patron Saint of Junkies in those days. This tornado also picked up a dredge crane, working on one of the drainage canals, and placed it across the canal without any significant damage. I wish I could have taken my girls there! Small world. He would free the snakes on a table in front of him, then catch the snakes bare-handed, and force them to eject their venom into glass vials with a rubber membrane stretched across the top. But I remember leaning over the small wall to look closer at that croc when my feet slipped and I pitched forward towards the pit. My Dad would take me there often, we lived in South Miami (as I do againlong story). Not sure she had quite the same fascination that I did but it's still very memorable. Haast was also bitten by a green mamba. Also wonder if that huge Cobra statue is still on the property..and still scary as hell!!!!!!!!! MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. A 17-year-old boy has been arrested following the fatal shooting of another teenager at an apartment complex in northwest Miami-Dade, authorities confirmed Tuesday. He was able to identify the type of snake that bit me by the bite marks. Great stories were told on our nightly walks, stories of Africa in the "War" , Safaries, snakes hey we like snakes , Dick gets in troule all the time with his snakes.
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