Were there any kinds of medical facilities?
After the War, we had no medical facilities here.
Even though the Hospital was built as such…
But it was never used as such. The Hospital Building which you alluded to right there was one of the nice places in the Park to live in at that time. Because it was the first place that was built so that you had living quarters out of the snow.
Still is.
Still is, sure. So that was a nice place. But it wasn’t really finished until sometime during the period of time that we were here.
Jean: It wasn’t even used in the wintertime when we were here, was it?
No, I don’t think so.
Jean: Summer quarters?
Just summer quarters for, I think, the Chief Clerk which was what your Administrative Officer was called in those days. I think he and his wife and a small daughter lived there. His name was Daryll Crumley.
So the Sleepy Hollow quarters were not used in the winter?
Oh yes, the Sleepy Hollow quarters, you bet. At that time, we were figuring it out on the way up here, I think we had about ten or twenty permanent people that stayed up here in the Park. Now I say permanent, but they weren’t all permanent. Some of them were what we call now…I can’t remember what we would call them when I retired, but they were probably on a nine-month appointment. They were awful close to permanent. They returned year after year.
Jean: There were six or eight of those houses at Sleepy Hollow used all year.
They were cramped and some of them had real long snow tunnels. Now, I know I’m jumping around a lot here, Steve. I hope that it’s not fouling up your procedure at all. But snow tunnels are one thing, of course, that had to go up every fall and had to come down every spring. That was not a Ranger job. I don’t mean that we were too good to be that. They had a crew and they came in with a cherry picker and put them down. They were built somewhere else and they were brought in. The Administration Building here had a huge snow tunnel that went from the curb clear back in. And all the houses had the same thing. The three small houses the first row up, had snow tunnels and they were about, oh I guess, ten feet long.
