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Thanks, he was so busy, he did not seem to mind the human!

Thank you, following your lead!

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Elton John!

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Cool, I hope you have a great visit! The weather should be a lot cooler then.

@@RationalTalk sadly i couldn't get accommodation at North Rim so I'm staying in Kanab.

@@rickeap That is quite a drive. If you watch the North Rim Lodge website starting two weeks before your travel date, I can almost guarantee you will get a room. Cancellations are allowed to within three days of the stay. There is also the Kaibab Lodge, just past the Park entrance, that is a lot closer.

@@RationalTalk but I’ve already paid for two nights in Kanab. I could only get one night on the south rim but have left the next night open in the hope something will come up

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Yes, with a great view. Thanks for watching!

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It is a shame that the pool is gone, now all we have is a shower!

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I agree, I think this is a fascinating bit of history that should be highlighted, not ignored.

LOL. Yes, it does.

Yes, and I have seen some of the originals of these photos at the Grand Canyon Museum Collection, I can attest, they are the real thing.

Yes, it took some in-person research at Grand Canyon, but it was all a lot of fun!

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No, but you could buy uranium samples at the gift shop, almost as good!

I agree, something about the styles and colors!

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I hope you have a great stay. Be sure to get an upstairs rooms, as the ones downstairs can get pretty loud. You can add that request by calling their toll-free number.

Very simple, but a particular style of architecture that I like.

It is truly a remote area, but the people were friendly!

I always see this building from the highway and decided to stop by and take a closer look. There is not much to it!

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I always drive straight through there, but this time my brother was driving and we stopped, something I will likely do in the future. Thanks so much for watching!

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I don't think you can go wrong pairing modernism and Miles Davis.

Absoulutely, I wish I had seen it then!

Probably not too essential in the wet east, but a must-have in the dry and dusty West.

This is about 2 hours West of Albuquerque on I-40, so only nearby if you are coming to Grand Canyon from the East.

Absolutely, both in music and architecture.

The location is wonderful, the administration of the facility is disappointing, and that is only compounded by the high prices they charge. I will be back in a few months and hopefully things have improved, otherwise it will be my last stay there. I might try camping instead, or just stick to the South Rim.

Thanks so much, it was frustrating to me that this place had no accessible history, so I did a lot of digging to get the sparse information I found. At least some of the history is out there now. Thanks for watching!

Thank you for sharing that memory. It must have been a fun Summer! Do you recall how much of Maswik North was done at that time, and did they still have the old reception building? The dates are so hard to come by, and the knowledge of someone who was there would be helpful. Thanks for your comment.

@@RationalTalk I think the north was completely open then, but I may be wrong. I worked on the South Rim for the summers of 1977, 78 and 79, earning money to return to college each fall semester. Incredibly fun times and great coworkers. I began as a Yavapai Lodge laundry worker in '77 and ended the last summer as a Bright Angel bellman. Great tips carrying luggage back then!

Also, I don't recall an old reception building at Motor Lodge. That may have been converted to the employee cafeteria by the time I began working there.

@@billarmstrong6540 Cool, thanks for those clarifications. The buildings I stay in are dated around 1979, so that is consistent. I don't know why the Park does not have an accurate history. Thanks for the information about the reception building, I will try to reasearch when the old building went away when I get the time. I appreciate your help with the timeline. Sounds like great place to have worked Summers.

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Thanks, you are much too kind. It was great fun doing the research for this video. I appreciate your watching!

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Thanks, I hope you can make the visit!

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Thank you, you are much too kind.

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Thanks so much. I could not agree more about the affordability. They adopted a new federal regulation in late 2023 that allows the vendors to charge more for the rooms. I hope to find the time to make a video about that one of these days, but the effect is that it is pricing people of moderate means out of staying in the National Parks.