Here’s Walt talking about his first dive. He’d gone to Alaska to watch the deep-sea divers work, maybe interview a few and write articles based on that experience. He did not expect to work as a diver for an entire summer, inspecting fishing traps and salvaging underwater wreckage. In this clip, Walt describes feeling […]
Gentle Ben at The Orpheum Theater
In 1967, Walt Morey’s novel Gentle Ben was optioned into a short-run movie (which later served as a pilot for the television series, “Gentle Ben”) called “Gentle Giant.” These gorgeous photos show Walt, presumably watching the movie premiere, at Portland’s Orpheum Theater. The Orpheum Theater was demolished in 1976 and the downtown Nordstrom was built […]
Walt’s Letters Home While Diving in Alaska — Spring of 1950
Cordova, AK Spring 1950 Dear Tiny [Rosalind Morey], Mom and Dad— Well, here we are at the cannery at Orca Bay about a mile out of Cordova. I can look out the window of our room at snow fields right over our heads on one hand and the sea not a hundred feet at our […]
The Hell Man
I wrote a fight story and sent it out to a pulp magazine that published nothing but fight stories. The magazine was called Knockout. It paid a penny a word. Two weeks later I received a letter from the editor. I’d always heard how it would go. You’d get a letter from an editor, […]