I suppose labor had an advantage right after the War too with the expanding job market.
You did. I came on duty as a Seasonal Ranger. I don’t know how we’re doing as far as your list here. After the Chief Ranger decided that was a bad idea, I think he was prodded by his wife, too. Now I don’t mean to say that the Chief Ranger was a bad guy, he wasn’t. He was a very fine Chief Ranger. His name was Carlisle Crouch. He and his wife, Thelma, had a little boy. His wife was great and I’m pretty sure that she said that is no place to send a man and wife and a nine month old baby out to the north entrance. I suspect that had something to do with it. But anyway, we did settle in that house down at Annie Spring and we stayed there for about three years.
Jean: Two years.
My first job here as a Seasonal Ranger was over at the Lost Creek entrance station. The east entrance was open in those days. Some days you might have fifty cars come in there; some days you might have twenty-five. There was a lot of time to read regulations and then read whatever you could get a hold of over there. I would take a pickup from over on this side and travel across to over there and take the cutoff which goes down below over to Lost Creek. It was delightful over there. There wasn’t much to do.
Was the Grayback Road on way even at that time?
No. It was not one way. Everything was two ways.
But you took the modern route to get there?
No. I took the old route.
