Were people charged to go through the Park on Highway 62?
They were charged to go through the Park on 62, that’s right. They didn’t like it much. People didn’t care much for it. The trucks, of course, were kept out as they are now. If there was much of an argument and there usually wasn’t, there weren’t very many people that argued about it, but they were told that if you don’t like it you could turn around and go back and go around by the other way, down by Klamath Falls and across to Medford if that’s what you wish, in the politest terms that you could use.
The west and south were manned all year long?
No, it was just during the summertime that the west and the south were manned. And then we moved an entrance station. I think it was an extra entrance station. It shows in some of these pictures. It was that heavy log entrance station. I think it was put up here in the utility yard during the summertime and then was moved down there in the fall and put right into the middle of the road pretty much directly in front of the old log house.
Okay, it could be anchored. It looks like in the pictures it was a permanent fixture.
No, it wasn’t. I’m sure that it was moveable. I’m sure it was moved in the fall. We had tent houses that sat back in the woods. You couldn’t see them from the road. It was where the seasonal rangers lived. Of Course, we didn’t have to be concerned about the mixing of sexes in those days cause all seasonal rangers were men. There were no women seasonal rangers. So we had, I think it was, four or five live at each station and at the north. I don’t recall how many seasonal rangers we had in all. There were probably about sixteen or seventeen.
Was this building, the Ranger Dorm, occupied at that time?
Yes, it was.
But it was all male? There were no females?
No, there were females in here, too, because some were clerks.
