Did you talk to Briggle at all, concerning his experience at Mount Rainier and his moving out of headquarters from Longmire (22)?
No. We never touched that. I don’t remember ever talking [with him] about that. The other thing we would have lost is, ultimately, through benign neglect if you will, all of the Munson Valley historical structures.
And that was certainly a selling point to the historic preservation people.
As I told you, history had to brought into the foreground. It had to be made a viable part of the Crater Lake operation. It just had to. So therefore, to sell down the river all of those wonderful historic structures would have been a real tragedy. That would have been the other big negative. Politically, it would have been kind of nifty and living conditions probably would have been a little better, although I’m not so sure of that. But you think of the amount of the things that we did put into the area, like the satellite television, living at Crater Lake isn’t too bad anymore.
Was Sleepy Hollow part of the equation as far as whether to move out?
One of the options we played around with that really is a beautiful, absolutely magnificent design. In fact, we thought of taking all the Steel Circle housing and making it seasonal and moving the permanents over to Sleepy Hollow and building new stuff there.
I saw the site plan, and it certainly accommodates that with the garages.
Oh, it would have been wonderful. Did you see the drawings or the model or anything?
No, I didn’t see the model.
One of the concepts, I don’t remember where that is or whether we ever even had pictures of it, was instead of duplexes was quadraplexes. And the quadraplex would have been in the form of a square, four separate buildings, all joined, but in the form of a square with a central courtyard. And the courtyard would have been covered. The whole structure would have had one great, big, huge roof allowing moveable panels so you could get light in. And you would actually have a common area courtyard in the middle where the kids could go out and play all year long, under a roof. You could grill outside and all that kind of crap. It was a wonderful, wonderful design. And that was a real hot alternative for a long time. 1 think there’s only one reason that that never happened. Tobin thought it was awful.
