[Magellan]

Where do I get a library card to go to the Quark Memorial Library? Oh, wait, you have to be dead for it to be a memorial. I don't want you dying, I just wanna get my mitts on your books.

[Quark]

[derekwayne]

i never got a book report on the "dunces" young ladie......

[patches]

Hi! I'm new; but curious. Would it be toooo rude to ask what you paid for a 1950 copy of Nels's book? & where you bought it from? I just bought a 1926 1st edition; am waiting for it to arrive. I am trying to get a copy of each printing. thanks

[Quark]

(sent patches a PM) 1969 Mt Baker National Forest map and a 1917 USGS Glacier Peak Quad on their way to me (not a copy, an original!) Mt Baker & Snoqualmie NF's merged in '73, '74 timeframe, no? Heard a NF guy a public comment session a few weeks ago refer to his forest as Okanogan-Wenatchee. I knew they were kicking around a merge, so I guess it went....?

[MtnGoat]

I have a brand new copy of the 70s version of the MBS map, isn't that the one with Baker on a blue sky day on the front?

[HurlGurl]

I love the pictures and stories on the back of the '69 Mt Baker National Forest map. Reminds me of when I was a kid... Cover picture is blue sky Baker (from swift creek trail) Have a stack of my grandfathers hunting maps, complete with pencil tracings and notes. He hunted a lot in now what is the suburbs :-) heck, so did I. My favorite map (in the moment) is an old gas station (standard oil / chevron) road map, "Washington Points of Interest and Touring Map" pre Interstate 5. Outstanding shading and colors....

[MtnGoat]

Nice! old maps from family are way cool, you get the sentimental attachment and vintage maps all in one.

[Quark]

I tried driving from Seattle to Bellingham using a 1954 Shell map, just for the hell of it... Big surprise, the route doesn't go.

[Snowbrushy]

I have a cool 'book' by Bob and Ira Spring before they hooked up with Mountaineer Publishing. It was published by Superior Publishing Co., Seattle in 1955. It is about 66 pages of pictures, mostly B&W. It is in a magazine form measuring 9" by 7" in a heavy (blank) paper cover.

Ira 1

Paradise Lodge

Glacier Vista - Panorama Point

Cowlitz Glacier

Chapter 5

[hyak.net]

The best find of mine is an old book from 1935 that has ski maps of all the most popular ski areas in WA such as Chinook Pass, Deer Park, Mt Rainier and of course the normal areas. The only area of all those shown that had a ski lift/tow was Mt Baker with its Ski Escalator on Pan Dome.... Cool to see how folks used to ski in the early days.... Below is a small section of the Chinook map as an example.

[Magellan]

Nice find Snowbrushy!!

[Snowbrushy]

I recently found it in my childhood closet along with Boy Scout stuff which I'd forgotten about, as my only parent is moving from the old home to an assisted living situation and it will be sold. Kinda cool, huh? I'd like to post many more of the photos here. I'll try soon. Let's see what Tom, et-al, and the Spring family thinks. I'm not clear about the legalities.

[greg]

I have a 1970 Snoqualmie NF map, a 1963 map of the "Goat Rocks Wild Area," a 1969 Gifford Pinchot NF map, a 1968 Olympic National Park map, a 1967 Okanogan NF map, a 1964 Wenatchee NF map, a 1968 Olympic NF map, and several ranger district maps (Tieton, Naches, White River, Skykomish, North Bend) dated 1970. But my favorite old book is Ruth Kirk's 1962 "Olympic Seashore."

[goats gone wild]

Greg, Where'd you come across all those great old maps?