This is one of my stories, so if you don't want to read, click delete.
Several years ago I was doing a workshop for the Feds in Bozeman, Montana. Well, this is the banana belt of MT. and has lots of places to see. One afternoon a group went to the Lolo Hot Springs. I struck up a conversation with a "good old boy" and asked where we could get some good food and beer. Well the first group was five guys and one lady. Not worth retelling. We decided to get a group together and go the next night (Friday) to let off steam. Well the evening was full of beer, broasted chicken, beer, potato wedges, beer, jo-jo's, beer and other stuff I can't remember Music was local and great, and the crowd filled the 10 acre parking lot. So no one had to wait, there were twenty bar tenders wait persons.
OK, if you made it this far, you are having a slow evening. The structure was made from logs, not little ones, but 4-6 footers, I have no idea how big, but I would guess from memory about 40,000 square feet total. To get there is was about five miles up a forest service road of 2nd growth timber. The entrance was through a rough plank door into a "mud room, cut from the stump of the mother tree. I would say about twenty feet across and an arch about twelve feet high, no foundation needed, it still had it's roots. Well, this is in an area where timber is a core of the economy. Wood is cut by section and surveyor lines are edges for cuts. Just like furrows of corn or beans.
Timber is part of their lives. So what better to decorate with, but lumber related items...... I mean, can you imagine a wall of chain saws starting with 16 foot bars and going to baby 2 footers covering a wall? I saw saws(LOL) with four HP motors that were V4 Hobarts. I saw saws with motors on both ends, I saw at least 2,000 two man saws, with no duplications. I saw axes with 10 inch double blades, and I saw Indian blades 4 inches with two lbs. behind the blade. There were slings, snatch hooks, climbing tools and ........ I spent the second night with a lady friend from Washington identifying tools her granddad used.
Well the story doesn't end there. This was at the time of equal opportunity, in fact I did a session on parity, so the bar could not get away without equal opportunity. The major off wall from the entrance over the bar was covered with...... yes folks..... The only unique item not seen in a lumber camp. Ladies foundations. Here again, no duplicates, but they had a full range, even to the one that I swore would fit an elephant, but my friend said it wasn't an inch over a 56 quad E.
And that's the last of the story.
