<div dir="ltr">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.<br><br>David</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 4:27 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:TSBryan@aol.com" target="_blank">TSBryan@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>In a message dated 6/2/2014 11:17:17 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
<a href="mailto:lee_whittlesey@nps.gov" target="_blank">lee_whittlesey@nps.gov</a> writes:</div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT:5px;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;BORDER-LEFT:blue 2px solid"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:transparent" color="#000000" face="Arial">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.
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<div>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
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