Mission 66 Second Infusion of Financial/Construction Assistance

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Posted by Beej (97.121.205.118) on 17:21:12 07/23/12

In Reply to: Ruminating on Mission 66 posted by Ballpark Frank

Don't forget about an earlier program to help out parks and public lands, the WPA and CCC. Not every place got really substantive improvements, but if you ever got to Guernsey State Park (near Fort Laramie) and tried out the "Million Dollar Biffee", and the picnic shelters, you have a sample of some of the things the guys did. In Provo, Utah, I found an abandoned collection of stone masonry constructs that dated back to the CCC days. Yellowstone didn't get as much of "the Good Stuff" as other places, and I don't know about RMP.

I first learned about Mission 66 at Effigy Mounds National Monument in the very early sixties; they really laid it on as the coming program. When I got to YNP in 1966, there wasn't a peep about the program. If it weren't for the architecture, I would have thought '66 bypassed the place entirely. Took me a couple of years there to decide something really was missing. Several of the recent histories and conferences have discussed the program, saying that YNP really had a bad taste of it, therefore was playing it down.

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Hidden in the Canyon parking lot - RandalH 19:46:07 07/24/12 (0)
It's interesting you mention - Ria 07:35:54 07/24/12 (0)
Lots of CCC evidence - Ballpark Frank 23:58:30 07/23/12 (8)
- Not all the rockwork is as old as it looks... - Beej 09:56:39 07/24/12 (7)
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