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 ----- Original Message ----- From: dirt...@comcast.net 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.20 - Release Date: 2/4/2008 12:00 AM