And Yellowstone. We had the chief ranger’s house there, and it was a Mission 66 house. They were very comfortable house. And there were lots of people who were upgraded far as their housing was concerned. Now, I read in my Courier –you know, they push now for housing and they SHOULD be because my gosh, Mission 66 is what? Twenty-two years ago. And we didn’t do all that we should have done then because these little house that you got up here are unique, they’re great, they’re beautiful, but they’re lousy to live in. They just aren’t houses to live in all the time. And of course, they screwed up down here in the lower areas by putting flat roofs on the house at Crater Lake (26). To me, that was one of the biggest mistakes they ever made. You’re asked questions in here of things that I’ve seen change at Crater Lake. Housing in Crater Lake, of course, is one of the things that has changed so much because of these houses down here. They may have made mistakes in the flats roofs and all this sort of things, but the houses are far better than the one we had here. You’re up above the snow. If you have people that have a tendency to get cabin fever, they’re going to have a lot less tendency when they’re living up above snow like that. And again, I said this the other day when we were on our tour and somebody said something about cabin fever, I don’t think that our age group would get cabin fever nearly as bad as in your age group now. And I mean that not as a criticism in the slightest, I just mean it’s a difference in the way people have been raised, the difference in the country itself, and the whole bit, that’s all. It just isn’t the same.
As sort of a hypothesis, at the time your generation was going through the parks, were there more people with local connections in the parks then there are now?
In some places, yes. Very definitely. Sequoia/Kings is a good example of that, because there were a lot of people with ties right down to Three Rivers, and to Woodlake, and even down to Visalia. And this sort of thing all down through the valley there. There were local ties into that area. And the same thing would come down through Grant Grove, down into that area there.
