[Geysers] a historical question

[David Schwarz]

The attached photos are from a 1906 photo album, and show a single-plank
walk past a previous incarnation of the Black Growler and out into
Porcelain Basin.

David


On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:27 PM, <TSBryan at aol.com> wrote:

>  No doubt the dates cited by Lee, MA, Rocco, and etc. are correct in
> regards to park-wide projects, but it is clear that wooden walkways existed
> well before the 1940s. These may have been short and restricted to the
> surrounds of individual features, but for a few examples look at Haynes
> photos 22637 (Dragon's Mouth), 11125 and 23463 (Mud Volcano), 16049
> (Morning Glory -- I think that's a walkway on the far side of the pool),
> and perhaps even better a photo from the USGS digital photo file labeled
> "Black Growler 1924" that clearly shows a wooden walkway and bridge
> complete with wooden railing. Lastly, while I can't seem to locate it at
> the moment, someplace there's a picture of Porcelain Basin that shows a
> wooden plank-like walkway that extends well out into the basin; I somehow
> recall the date of 1922 for that one.
>
> Scott Bryan
>
>  In a message dated 6/2/2014 11:17:17 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> lee_whittlesey at nps.gov writes:
>
> For information on the UGB walkways, see the Geyser Gazer pages on
> Facebook. M.A. Bellingham and I both made some comments there. The first
> formal walkways that I know of at UGB were the asphalt ones, built in (as I
> recall) 1934. Rocco Paperiello has posted some photos of this construction
> from the park's black scrapbooks on his Facebook page.
>
> The park's actual move to wooden boardwalks (what the 1946 Report of the
> Superintendent called "duckwalks") began that year, and continued being
> built during the period 1946-1950 in various places.
>
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