The park budge is about two million and we estimate one sixth is involved with snow removal, some three hundred thousand.
I wouldn’t doubt it at all. It is a very expensive job, but it has to be done. See, if we could have moved this stuff down out of there, literally we could have left it closed. Probably not feasible, but I always thought it was the most beautiful place in the world in the winter time. Gosh, that rim was fantastic.
[Ron] It was certainly a very heavenly landscape.
I’ve seen a drawing dated about ’71 for a camper services building. Was that something that was part of the contract, as was the gas station?
Yeah, well, it was cleaning up the operation more than anything. You needed facilities for campers; we were beginning to get a lot of them. As for safety, that old station wasn’t too good. It wasn’t anything special, it was just something you plug in.
You asked a question about history of the building. Did we consider them as historic? To some degree; we did the Assistant Superintendent’s house that was the second one down. It was never really utilized except during the summer months.
Did you live in the one at the top of the hill?
Yes, it was a very nice place, but terribly expensive to maintain. I suppose they are not using that now, are they?
It is used for seasonals and became a National Historic Landmark.
[Bill] The older stone buildings, right?
The one thing that I recall we were going to do was demolish the old Annie Spring station. It was down by the campground and we were not using it. I figured we better get rid of it. Somehow or other, the historians got word that we were contemplating getting rid of the Annie Springs station. Is that still there?
It was demolished in ’87.
It was, I mean it was pathetic.
[Bill] Yeah, it was used for a dorm for awhile. Wasn’t much, it looked more like a tool shack than anything else.
That was the only thing that I recalled that came up.
