Type in ticket counter and you should see it...nothing there other than the photo
oh well ... tried everything I can think of ... lost to the forum.
I found it by searching under "feedback", as that was what David was looking for. It's on this thread: New Forum & News Updates - p. 293. It was just before TC "left the game" and then didn't, so everyone probably got a little distracted. It's a good read. A few typos (I used to teach ESL so I proofread through force of habit) and I do have questions about some of the points (esp. the newspaper), but overall I enjoyed it and was delighted by the details. Again, ANYTHING anyone has on the interior of Portland airport at that time - or downtown Portland in general, for that matter - would be much appreciated.
Thanks for the help Lynn. I see nothing in his post on that date about the ticket counter - what I do see is an attachment he made. In that word doc attachment he talks about the ticket counter? So I guess his ticket counter points are in that word doc. at the end of his post?
Hm, let me have a look. I was actually interested in the overall interior of the Portland airport (also that of LAX as my non-Cooper protag passes through there - all I know is it looks like a spaceship) just to add detail to my fiction.
I see the Bunce mural was near the ticketing area at the time, has since moved around. "Now defunct Airlines such as Eastern, Western and Pan Am graced the ticket counter area. The Zodiac Room overlooked parts of the runway and terminal, allowing those sitting down for a meal a warm, dry, comfortable view of the operations outside. This was no chain restaurant. A uniformed waitress complete with small, white hat took your order and served the meal."
"A line of customers stretched before Northwest Orient (NWO) employee Dennis Lysne standing behind the ticketing counter". (ref: The total number of passengers derived from the following lists: “Correspondence, receipts, and other documents.” 2013. Washington State Historical Society (WSHS) Collections: DB Cooper. 2011–2013; FBI documents reproduced on "The D. B. Cooper Project." True.Ink. Dennis Lysne’s encounter with Cooper: "Ex–ticket vendor says List not D.B. Cooper." UPI.com. July 01, 1989. Accessed December 5, 2016. You are not allowed to view links.
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Login–B–Cooper%20. As to ticketing procedures at that time: "John Maximuk oral history transcript," Washington State Historical Society Collections, August 17, 2013, accessed December 2016, You are not allowed to view links.
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Footnote: "There has been confusion over the years as to who “sold” the ticket to Cooper. Researching this, Hal Williams came up at times. Dennis himself and FBI records show he as ticket agent did so. Williams was the NWO gate agent. In addition, there is credible evidence to show Cooper did not write his own name on the boarding pass. As was the procedure at that time, Lysne did this. "
"Those leaving for Seattle aboard Flight 305 made their way to Concourse L, one of two on the south side of the terminal. " That's the last mention of the ticketing area. It mentions that Hal Williams observed DBC at the gate pre-boarding. ( FBI Records: the Vault–D. B. Cooper, File# 164–81–113; John Guernsey, "Ticket agent won't forget man in black," The Oregonian (Portland, OR), November 25, 1981.)
I hope this helps, georger. I don't know if you're still thinking about the question of who filled in Cooper's ticket, but I'd pretty much wager the passengers didn't fill out their own. I could be wrong, but it's counter-intuitive. I see no benefit to the passenger filling in their own name from the clerk's POV.