Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1966. When we visited Glacier National Park—in 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1973—we stayed at the Swifcurrent Motor Inn. My Parents rented two adjacent rooms at the end of one of the Inn's buildings. The price for the two rooms was $28.00 per night. We could have stayed at the cheaper cabins the Inn offered, but back then, no cabins featured baths, and Mom and I insisted on indoor plumbing. This is a photo of the entry to our rooms.
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Glacier National Park, Montana, July 1987. Here's a view of the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn's entrance in 1987, when I visited my Montana friends, and they drove me from Missoula to Glacier.
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I was a Swiftcurrent Employee during the summer of 1970. That was the year they took out all the small pot belly stoves in the employee cabins and replaced them with Electric Heaters. We really missed the crackle of fire in those stoves. That was a great summer of hiking, campfires and fun.
Thanks for visiting, Gil. Our family stayed at Swiftcurrent during the summers of 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1973. We may have crossed paths.
We stayed in the two adjoining rooms at the end of the building. It was quite a luxury because the lodgings (for both rooms) then cost $18.00 per night.
The restaurant was quite good before 1973 (when the park concession took it over and the menus were standardized for all the properties). The Swiftcurrent chef made a very good spaghetti and meatballs. In 1972 I caught about twelve trout, and the chef cleaned them and cooked them for us.
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