So he was here during the war?
He was here part of the time during the war, probably in ’41, ’42. I don’t know when he came from Yellowstone but it probably would have been in ’41, something like that and he probably went off in the service in late ’44, something of that sort.
Well, there are a few events that we don’t have much on, like the downed planes in the lake and when, I guess people were coming from the various military hospitals during the war.
I’m sure that they did because they certainly used Yosemite that way. But this I don’t know anything about because I wasn’t here, and Jean worked her before I did. She worked up at the concession in ’42, when they had to close for the tire situation.
Jean Howe: Yes it was only about six weeks that the lodge was open that year. They had to close early because they were not getting travel. And so we closed at the end of Jul, I guess. They didn’t open ‘til the middle of June.
So the C camps already closed by that time. There weren’t any workers around at all?
CC camps were pretty much gone.
By ’41?
Now there was one at Tiller. I know because I can remember my father and mother, and Jean and I, after we were married, while I was on furlough for a time going up to CC Camp up around Tiller. So, that was in ’43, but it was in the process of being closed down at that time. There were only a few administrative people around.
