[Geysers] Story about Daisy Marie

[tsbryan at aol.com]

My tale about Daisy Marie -- Marie Wolf - is short. She was called "Daisy  
Marie" for good reason, and this is how I met her in the first place.
 
Back in the early 1970s, when Daisy and Splendid were undergoing  
occasional, short active phases separated sometimes by days of dormancy, I was  
working Park Service maintenance at Canyon. Marie was the switchboard operator  
in the Old Faithful Inn. (That switchboard, located adjacent to the east  
corridor behind the registration desk, was the old sort, where the operator  
pulled cords that plugged into the appropriate connector to complete a call.) 
If  she was on duty, Marie was at the switchboard; if she was off duty, she 
was at  Daisy.
 
On my days off, my usual procedure on arriving at Old Faithful was to go  
into the Inn to check with Marie, who usually was on duty. Had Daisy and/or  
Splendid been active in the last few days? If so, when? And so on. She was 
free  with the information, as was I in exchange. It was, however, always a 
thrill to  hear that Daisy had not been active, to go out there, and to be 
the only person  present for the first eruption of a new series.
 
As a by-the-way, in later years Marie held other jobs at Old Faithful. One  
of them was in the kitchen area, where she seemed to be the only person who 
 could keep the dishwasher working. It was known as "Daisy."
 
Scott Bryan
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