Randy:
Ivan had the drawings in a large wooden
shipping crate, filed in some order that he understood, and he was able to
access them from that storage container. As I said, he pulled a number
of coaling station drawings and shipped them to me to scan, but I could not
afford the cost of scanning the big 24x26-inch tracings in an era when big
flatbed scanners were few and far between.
It crushes me to
think how much has likely been lost with these drawings, but I cannot
imagine that they have survived, as Ivan almost certainly has
not.
Hol
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
From: randy@prototrains.com
Date: Tue, 10 Dec
2013 22:31:28 -0600
Subject: [CBQ] RE: Does anyone know Ivan G.
Parks?
At 02:29 PM 12/10/2013, Hol wrote:
>and have
not heard from him since -- and this was nearly 10
>years ago. I tried
everything I could think of to see that
>the drawings were preserved,
but I am afraid they are lost now.
Thank you for the (unfortunately
sad) update, Hol. I wish I had been
more persistent/timely in
corresponding with Ivan when he moved to
Puerto Rico, but in his last
letter to me he indicated the drawings
were all packed away from that
move and were not accessible. Maybe
he never unpacked
them?
Randy
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