He still might be there. (18)
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. Our electrician was a man by the name of Paul Koehler, and his wife was the telephone operator. The telephone switch board at that time was located, as you go into the main entrance of the Administration Building, to the left there was the switch board, and that’s where she was kind of a receptionist. If anybody wandered in, she was there to take care of it.
That’s the way it was until two years ago (19).
All right. And let’s see, in the warehouse there was a man by the name of Paul Turner and Paul lived in the first small house. Paul and Doris lived in the first row.
The one furthest north?
Yes, he was a warehouse man. He’d been here before the war; he was a few years older than I am. And he’d been here, I think, maybe more as a seasonal before the war. I think he was in the Navy during the War, came back and became the permanent warehouse man. And then while Lou was here, after I left, he became a ranger here. And then went on and became a ranger at Olympic, and at Sequoia, and finally retired. I think his first wife died after that time. He remarried and he lives n California, I think. His helper was a man by the name of George Woodley. And George was a character.
You mentioned here about what my opinion was about the possibility of putting headquarters at the South Entrance. We thought it was a great idea. We really did because, as I’ve said before, that we really didn’t have cabin fever. But in the Spring from sometime in late April on, it got darned old up here because then all you had was dirty snow. Now when it started to snow, Jean used to sit and watch the stuff comes up the window. And it snowed, and it was fun. And it was fun when it froze around the house, and then the pine martens would run around inside the snow caves and they’d look in the window at you; this was great. But in April and May, when you could go down to Klamath Falls and the flowers were blooming and this sort of things, the grass was green, and when you come back here it got darned old. Down there at the South Entrance, or close to the South Entrance, near the Panhandle, it as low enough so that by that time of year you had the same thing as you did outside. We thought that it would’ve been ideal place. But of course, the expense even at that time as such that they never could get into gear over the thing. If the Mission 66 had, in this Park, centered on that, I think we would’ve been better off. But I wouldn’t say that’s a better situation all around for the administration, I don’t know.
