The Total Yellowstone Page
This page is setup so those who shared the magic of Yellowstone and worked there together can continue their friendships and keep in touch. The only thing I ask, is that you share your memories or at least your most memorable Yellowstone experience with us fellow Yellowstoners.
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Bridge Bay Canyon Chat Page Fishing Bridge Grant Village Lake Mammoth Night of the Bear |
Norris Northeast Entrance Old Faithful Reunions Roosevelt Lodge Savage Locator Tower West Thumb |
Jerry R. Aschermann - 61 - West Thumb
Jerry Kasten - 61/63 - Seasonal Ranger
Michael Sheets - 61 - Boat Dock / Fishing Guide / Dockman - YPCO
Chuck Sladek - 62/63 - Seasonal Ranger
Walt O'Brien - 64 - YP Cafeteria
Jim Nathan - 64 - YP Cabins / Cafeteria
R.C. Grossheider - 65/66 - Hamilton Store
Karen Koenning - 65/66 - Hamilton Store
Jeanne (Fore) Moran - 65/66
Joanne (Fore) Masters - 65/66
Bob Wicks - 66-69
Joe Cartwright - 70 - West Thumb Area
Sandy (Stumbo) Low - 70 - Hamliton Store
Jordy Shenefield - 70/71 - YPSS
Randy Smith - 70/71 - YPSS
Ron Armstrong - 71/73 - West Thumb
Debby (Leggit) Garrott - 71/72 - Hams - Jewelry Dept
Diana Leggit - 71/72 - Hams - Curio Dept
Larry Lancaster - 72/73 - West Thumb
Kathleen Michael - 76 - Hams
Lynn (Pfannkuche) Rodgers - 76/78 - West Thumb Rebel
Emily Whiteside - 76 - Hams
Pam (Powell) Aspinall - 78/79 - West Thumb
David Feliz - 78 - West Thumb Rebel
Debbie (Swift) Hartzman - 78 - West Thumb
Ron Taylor - 78 - West Thumb
Tommy Pucket - 80 - West Thumb
John Williams - 80 - YPSS
Steve Oyler - 84/85 - Hams
Stories by Jack Damron (Service Station in '59):
"At the service station we always had two people to handle a car, one to fill
it up with gas the other to wash windows, check the wiper blades for
replacement, talk to the visitors, check under the hood for oil, and
anything else we might sell them. If you got $100 in sales for a day,
you could take of when you did. If you could sell a set of tires,
that was worth a couple of days off. Well this one customer, I was
the window guy and when I started around the front of the car to get
the windows on the other side, I noticed what looked like a gob of
grease stuck on the hood in the middle. I started to wipe it up and
the driver told me "Don't, that's honey - I want to get a picture of
a bear on my hood.""
"At night on August?? at about 11 pm I was laying on my bunk and
guys were playing cards on the bunk below when everything started
shaking. I thought it was the guys playing cards screwing around so I
leaned over to tell them to stop it and they were leaving the room
running. Big earthquake of 1959. Didn't do any damage at West Thumb,
but did at other places in the park..Old Faithful and Canyon had
damage and one of the roads split and dropped, cutting off that part
of the park for the rest of the year. I wasn't supposed to work the
first shift the next day, but at 6 am I was awaken by my buddy and
told up to get dressed and come to work, everyone that had been
staying at West Thumb was lined up to get gas and leave. It was
pretty lonely in the park after that for the rest of the summer."
"I was back for the first time since 1959 in Aug/Sept of 2005 and
stayed for 4 nights at Old Faithful Inn. Lots of changes. Hardly any
Americans working as summer temporary help - instead kids from
Poland, Russia and Far East and other countries. In the service
stations, retirees working along with American college kids. Hardly
saw any bears, only 2 black bear and no grizzly's. Instead many, many
bison and elk. My summer in 1959 there where 3 things we did that I
remember that I found out you aren't allowed to do any more. 1) one
of us would get a fire permit to build a fire down on Yellowstone
Lake just about each day. At night we ( the workers at West Thumb)
would gather around the fire and sing songs tell stories. Not allowed
to build a fire any where other that the places the park has built
for you to have a fire in camping areas. 2) Occasionally we would go
hot potting, where we would swim at night in places where the really
hot water from the hot pots would overflow in to cool water and mix
to make it like bath water. Usually we went just out of the park
south to Flagg Ranch, where they had meandering steam that mixed with
the hot pot water. At night it was cold getting in and out but really
nice once in. Stopped at Flagg Ranch and was told just stopped
allowing it. Lastly, went down to Jenny Lake in the Grand Tetons and
rented a horse for the day to go up and back with a group into the
Tetons to a beautiful lake/pond at the end of a high canyon and have
lunch. Found out the Park shut the fellow down that had the horses
and only allows travel by foot up into the Tetons now. Guess I was
there at just the right time.
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"We worked 6 days in a row and off one. Each week was on either the
morning shift or the afternoon shift. So, when you were getting off
the morning shift and going on you day off, you had 48 hours before
you had to work again. I had a car that summer, so a group of us took
trips to Billings, Montana; Salt Lake City and Sun Valley, Idaho. On
the way to Sun Valley late at night in Idaho, we came across this
small National Park - no one had heard of it. So we pulled in to a
parking lot, got out, threw sleeping bags down and went to sleep.
Woke up the next morning and were we shocked. All around us was lava
flows and craters. It was call Craters of the Moon NP. It did look
like what you thought the moon might look like.
"
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Bridge Bay Canyon Chat Page Fishing Bridge Grant Village Lake Mammoth Night of the Bear |
Norris Northeast Entrance Old Faithful Reunions Roosevelt Lodge Savage Locator Tower West Thumb |
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