Of course, that would have been under Price, not Peyton.
Yes. I probably did some of them solo that had to do with what we considered the safety in the fire situation in the lodge. It’s part of the reason that I feel so strongly that the lodge should go. I talk against myself on some of these things. As for these building down here, I think there’s no way they should ever be taken out. But I do not feel that it is appropriate to have building that is right on the edge of the lake…which is the only reason Crater Lake Park exists. And that lodge had no place on the rim of it. Now, here again, that is my feeling, it also happens to be my wife’s feeling and my sister-in-law feelings, but in a sense that’s immaterial. But that is the way I feel about it, very strongly.
There are a series of reports-whether it’s fire protection, or numerous other violations that the Lodge has seemed to accrue over the years. The reports [except for Mather pushing Parkhurst out in 1920] never seemed to have much affected.
I don’t think they did. It got to be almost ridiculous to go up there to check the place in the spring of the year before they opened up and find all these things wrong, write your report, and go back twelve months later and find exactly the same thing-not that we waited that long. I don’t mean to imply that we waited all the time for twelve months to go back again-but you would find the same things again twelve months later.
Well, the concession seems to be obstinate about certain violations. There doesn’t seem to have ever have been the power to make them do certain things.
I don’t know. From the very start, and of course, starting here and having this problem with the concessions, it was almost like the concession was operating in an island within Crater Lake National Park. The bus system, the cabins, and the lodge, and the screwy stuff that they would have on their shelves inside there, the food. The whole bit just almost seemed to be that there was nothing you could do about it. It was just there and it opened up every year and it ran for three months, and they closed down and went away, then they came back again. And it was like the superintendent didn’t know anything about it, I’m sure that he did. But, of course when I was here I didn’t know that much about concessions. I knew a lot more about concessions when I came back as associate regional director. Now, another thing about concessions if from what I have heard and read and everything, I think there has been a much stronger stand taken about concessions in the last five to ten years than there ever was before.
