Forum: History
01-30-2012, 11:26 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Aerials by Lewis E. Weeks
The fourth picture is of Chanticleer Inn & Cabins that was located next to the Old Belknap Point Railroad Station in Gilford on then Rte. 11. I worked there in the Summers of 1959 and 1960.
Lewis...
|
|
Forum: History
01-30-2012, 11:10 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Passing of Weeks Family Members
I too was sorry to hear of the passing of all the Weeks Family members. I had a crush on Peggy when we were kids growing up in LSP. Peggy never made it to some of the reunions that we had ten years...
|
|
Forum: History
04-24-2008, 01:26 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Lake Shore Park Panprama
McDude:
The store at LSP used to sell this panorama postcard when I was a kid. The photo pictures the "Big Pier" with Short Beach to the right. I estimate the time frame to be the late 1920's. Our...
|
|
Forum: History
03-19-2008, 10:24 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Lake Shore Park Amesbury Skiffs
Barkerrd:
The Amesbury Skiffs were painted white with green trim along the gunnels. They had about 10 of then parked on the boat slip by the Big Pier. Before that going back into the 1940's and...
|
|
Forum: History
07-22-2007, 01:56 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Miss Winnipesaukee 2007
SteveA:
Thanks for sharing this news with me and the Forum. I guess good genes must run in the family. Melissa must be Bobby's and Janice's daughter?
|
|
Forum: History
02-04-2007, 01:37 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Lake Shore Park Pavilion Post Card
McDude:
Nice purchase on the postcard of the pavilion. I have not seen that particular card before.
Steve A:
Take it from an old ebayer (member since 12/97), if you really want something in...
|
|
Forum: History
09-21-2006, 08:23 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Picture Not Taken from Lake Shore park
RG:
That picture was taken at a higher elevation, possibly from lower elevations of Locke's Hill near where the Chanticleer Inn was located. I would say somewhere between Greystone and...
|
|
Forum: History
09-20-2006, 09:46 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
2nd Lake Shore Park Water Tower
Captain Bob:
Yes, I remember a second lake Shore Park Water Tower. It was smaller and painted yellow and green. If you were standing on the steps of the pavilion and looking at the big old gray...
|
|
Forum: History
09-15-2006, 07:05 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Lake Shore Park Postcards
Thanks McDude, for posting the postacards. Some clarification on what we are looking at in these photos: The top post card is of Long Beach at Lake Shore Park (LSP). The second one down is a black...
|
|
Forum: History
09-01-2006, 08:22 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Boats at Lake Shore Park
Dickie B and N0-Mo-Shun:
Here is a photo taken from my DVD on Lake Shore Park and copied with my digital camera off my computer. The boat is a nice late 1920's Chris-Craft Triple Cockpit. The...
|
|
Forum: History
09-01-2006, 07:43 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Army Duck at LSP
Dickie:
In my DVD on LSP there coverage on the Army DUKW (Duck) at LSP. I look to be about six years old, so that makes it about 1949. The DVD shows the passsengers boarding the Duck at the...
|
|
Forum: History
08-31-2006, 08:34 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Steamboat at Lake Shore Park
Dickie B.,
I remember a gray colored steam launch that use to come over from Wolfeboro area and dock at the Big Pier. In my DVD on Lake Shore Park, that launch is in the film taken in 1949 at the...
|
|
Forum: History
08-30-2006, 10:39 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Legioaire "70"
No-Mo-Shun:
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=3746&si=legionaire&what=allfields
How about this photo.
|
|
Forum: History
08-30-2006, 10:32 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Armand's Blueberry Pies
Captain Bob:
I remember collecting blueberries on the back side of MT. ROWE at the then Belknap Recreation Area, now referred to as Gunstock. There was a humongous wild blueberry patch on the back...
|
|
Forum: History
08-30-2006, 10:27 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Legionaire "70"
No-Mo-Shun:
I remember the big Gar Wod from Alton Bay. It was one of the Legionaire Speedboats named the "70 Special". It was supposed to be capable of 70 MPH. Another fast boat from those times...
|
|
Forum: History
08-30-2006, 07:34 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Fishing in the 1940's off of Lake Shore Park
Billy B.,
Chet Fox passed away a number of years ago. His widow, Dottie, used to be the secretary of the local New England Antique and Classic Boat Society. The family has a beautifully restored...
|
|
Forum: History
08-27-2006, 07:10 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
|
|
Forum: History
08-23-2006, 09:55 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Lake Shore Park Entrance Sign
I received my DVD today from Home Movie Depot. The DVD contains two 6" reels of 8mm movies that my Dad, Larry Clarke, took back at LSP from 1947-1952. I was able to use my digital camera and take a...
|
|
Forum: History
08-23-2006, 03:37 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Long Beach and the Mount
This beach along with Ellacoya Beach is the nicest stretch of beach on the Lake. It always has been. The Mount use to announce when it passed the Park, "On your left is Lake Shore Park, home of one...
|
|
Forum: History
08-22-2006, 11:21 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Ice and Garbage Truck Drivers at Lake Shore Park.
Dick:
I forgot to mention in the previous post the names of a couple of our predecessors as the ice and garbage men at LSP. Jimmy Mitchell is the first one that I can remember. He drove an old...
|
|
Forum: History
08-22-2006, 11:11 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
LSP Garbage and Laundromat Work.
Dick:
I am sure now that I did the iceman/garbage routine after you. In 1959 I was working at Chanticleer Inn during the Summer. Billy DeGroot and I shared a cabin at Chanticleer Inn. We both...
|
|
Forum: History
08-22-2006, 10:51 PM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Ice and Garbage
Dick:
I think I did the Ice and Garbage after you did it, or you did it after I was the guy. I went into the store after the garbage/iceman bit. I rember that old '47 International pickup with the...
|
|
Forum: History
08-22-2006, 09:36 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
The "Island" at Lake Shore Park
No-Mo-Shun:
I never thought about Long Beach and the old "Ball Park" tent area being an island, but come to think of it, with the swam, ditch, and creek, it is an island. We use to catch pickerel...
|
|
Forum: History
08-22-2006, 09:28 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
Hi Dickie B
Hi Dick:
It has been a long time since we got together. Did you also work at the Chanticleer Inn back in 1959-1960?
We had a lot of good times back then with our "crowd' at the Park. I...
|
|
Forum: History
08-22-2006, 09:23 AM
|
|
Replies: 218
Views: 214,572
LSP Flagpole Rising
SteveA:
I have film video of the raising of the flagpole in 1949. I was six years old back then. This will be fun to watch. Hopefully my DVD's will be here before the weekend. They were shipped...
|
