That picture was included in the Serious Side section in the portion dealing
with the Texas caver's activities in Mexico. On the facing page begins a long
quotation from Frank Binney about his first encounters with some of the fabled
Texas/Mexico cavers that ends with a comment about the painting of T.R. Evan's
truck during a somewhat raucous evening at the 1968 Springfield NSS convention.
The psychedelic AMCS logo on the side of the camper had been applied earlier.
The additional painting was merely using the body of a willing volunteer to
smear paint on the hood, roof of the cab. etc. This was the summer of 1968 and
such antics were still a novelty in most parts of the country. Those were the
daze!
===Carl Kunath
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To: David ; Texas Cavers
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 11:21 AM
Subject: [Texascavers] Baloons in Caves
I seem to recall that back in the late 1960's (around the time of the 1968
Springfield MO convention), Jack Hershand was developing Marvel Cave and
hatching his ideas for Branson, MO. One of his early promotional photos
included a balloon (I think Hot Air, at least something with a passenger
gondola) in the cave, probably in the Cathedral Room.
Anybody else remember that?
While on memory row, that was also the convention when Dwight and Sandy Deal,
Squire and Nancy Lewis, and Loren Bolinger established the original Grode
Hollow of disreputable old-farts, and Loren painted the first Grode Hollow
sign. The slogan was: Even the flys don't like Katz Boch (the cheapest beer
available at 99 cents a 6-pack). And, of course, TR Evans brought copious
quantities of Lab-O to spike the green slime, which decimated the unwary, and
Loren used TinkerBell's body to paint TR's truck (see p. 317 in 50 years --).
I'm not exactly sure why Carl included that under his title of Serious Side
of Texas Caving. Probably because it was an image just too good not to use
somewhere.
DirtDoc
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