Why?
I don’t know. It just struck him wrong. The day that that presentation was made, he did not like that. Not one bit. But many of the rest of us did. But that’s as far as it went.
I can see a lot of advantages in flexibility.
It would have been wonderful.
Could you give me some background about the concessionaire’s development down at Mazama Village?
Basically, the concession at Crater Lake was a complete disaster. The concessioner was not willing to put the type of quality and what not into an operation that we were going to have to have. We thought that there was a tie in, a little thin, between the Crater Lake concession and the stuff in southern Utah, which I was imminently familiar with. We thought, early, we were going to do, and come with, a high quality concession operation at Crater Lake, similar to what’s being done in southern Utah. However, that never really happened, T suspect, for a variety of reasons. The concessioner had been given the campground down there on a trial, and the trial was an abject failure.
So there was a period the government had run it?
Oh, yes.
So it must have gone back to the government and then to the concessioner.
The bottom line was that it was an abject failure. [There was] absolutely no question it was horrible. So, I had put together a pretty good argument to take that back. I had everything lined up, I thought, politically and every other way, so that we would get the campground back at the end of this trial. Briggle, I talked to Briggle one time, and he said you haven’t a chance to do that. He said “It’s going to stay with the concessioner and there’s absolutely no way you can get it back.” I said, “Bullshit, of course I can get it back.” He said, “No, the director takes a very personal interest in this and he’s fully aware of what’s going on, and he’s personally decided that it will remain with the concession.” So, you don’t fight the director.
