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Erick Larson - Personal Communication
Interview, 13 October 2001
These are random notes I jotted down when I met Erick, his wife Britt, and daughter Anita Larson Friedenberg. I haven't transcribed the interview tape yet. Erick was 91 at the time of our meeting.
by Lowell SkoogWe watched Dwight Watson's 16mm movies on a videotape. Erick said that Dwight switched from 16mm to 8mm film (around 1940) because it was cheaper. Erick had seen Dwight's 8mm Glory of Water film and suggested he set it to Handel's Water Music.
Erick said that Dwight worked for an oven manufacturer as an electrical engineer. Dwight was known to call at midnight when he had a trip in mind and the conditions were right. I asked whether George Freed was a skier and Erick said he wasn't. Freed was an excellent photographer, with images taken all over the Cascades. Unfortunately, the Larsons didn't know what happened to Freed's photographs after he died.
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