Well, maybe we should just go to the construction. I know I had a question, a couple questions about the Watchman. That first one was that, did the Mt. Harkness lookout at Lassen influence what you did?
Yeah, I drew that up down in Sequoia. I think that the Watchman, if I were to do it again, I would make it a little heavier construction, but it’s still up this long. Were there problems with building the plumbing? I don’t know. Who is responsible for the cabinets for the lookouts? I guess they just put them in when they built it.
Well, the cabinets are really elaborate.
I know they’re good cabinets. They’re better than the building.
Yeah, they’ve got the diamond design on them, and they got that red table.
I think they must have bought all that stuff. I remember that. That was first class. That’s why I say “better than the building.” We have a report by Tom Vint that refers to some plans developed for CRLA in 1926. That’s probably true, yeah. As I was going to say, I don’t know too much about that.
Because that was earlier than when you got here.
Oh yeah, that’s about when he started. I remember I talked to a Professor, he’s dead now, and his name was Professor Craig. And he went to Massachusetts State School of Forestry with Craig. He died a number of …been dead for a long time. But, he came out in about 1918 or ’19 and Tom Vint had been in this military service and old men Sheppard in this old age told me this back in the ’40, he said, “I can always remember Tom Vint. When he first came to school,” he says, “This strong, stocky built guy, and he had an old model I and he’d drive up in front of the school building, he’d say, ‘Woah!’” You know! He laughed about that. Tom was kind of a bulky, all energy you know. Well, I don’t want to go into personalities. Hell, I don’t know too much about him.
