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Natalie Ayerst Baumgartner
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When I was a little girl ---
It's wonderful to see pictures of the incline today! When I was a little girl, about 3 or 4 years old, (later 1940's) we lived in a construction community near the base of the incline. In the evening everyone would go outside in the spring, summer and fall....to watch the bears come down the steep bank, only to take our chairs and toys and go inside for the evening as the bears roamed from house to house checking out the metal garbage cans...hoping someone had forgotten to secure the lid. My Dad, Charles Wilder Ayerst was the "paymaster" on that construction project.