Yes.
They added thickness in the walls. Putting that Styrofoam on the outside seemed to help, and doubling the windows – but look at those inadequate garages.
They are very small considering the time they were built.
There are only eight foot doors instead of nine.
You’ve got to be careful when trying to make a turn into the garage.
A lot of inadequate things were done, even in the comfort stations. That’s another things, I hate to see how they’re now being called restrooms and the roads are being called streets. You’re lost the word kiosk. It’s no longer in our vocabulary up there. The box, or the entrance station, but kiosk was such a wonderful word.
We lost the Annie Spring kiosk many years ago. That North Junction kiosk and the North House got clobbered. . .
Yeah, the late ‘fifties. When I started working up there, I remember there was like a glossary that you were expected to follow. It was a standardization of language that was only unique to the Park Service. Now it’s all restrooms. Now it’s all restrooms. Even the signs now, you go walking around the parks and you won’t see comfort station on the directions, you’ll see restrooms. So we’re losing a lot of our words of course, language changes, but I sure hated to see that go out. The comfort stations in the campgrounds were done very inexpensively, well, not inexpensively, they cost $20-$25,000 apiece down in Mazama. That was back when a house could be built for ten. They have been very sturdy. They were well built. But they are so ugly.
