Very late 40's, more likely early 50's. In picture # 1, of LSP you can see the flagpole, it was put up in 1949. It looks like Long Beach has no cottages "right" on the beach, which would date it in the 50's.

Thanks again for posting RSE2, welcome to the Forum!

Uploaded large size aerials by Weeks
 

I just uploaded full size versions of the Weeks aerials to the "Gallery" Historical photo section. Much more detail is available if you're interested.

Passing of Marion C. Weeks
 

I'm sad to report that Marion C. Weeks, wife of Lewis E. Weeks (also deceased), mother of Margaret (Peggy Weeks) Estey (deceased August 2011) and Stacy Weeks (also deceased), passed away last week at 97 years old.

The all loved LSP and talked about their wonderful summers there often.

The Weeks family
 

Hi rse2,
I'm sorry to hear about the passing of all of the Weeks family members. Peggy and I were friends at LSP when we were teenagers in the 50's. There is a good picture of her at post 142 on this thread. Please accept my condolances.
Her mother always struck me as a very elegant lady.
I remember her dad as quite a good horseshoe player. You would often see him playing horseshoes where the men had set up a pit behind the Shull's cabin near Big Pier. Lew always made lots of ringers.

DB

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 ago or thereabouts. I had not seen her since about 1960. The family was from Metuchen, NJ.

Bill C.
Norwich, CT 06360

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 Weeks used to rent a private plane on occasion at the Laconia Airport and fly over LSP. Lew was a great horseshoe player and softball player. He loved life and his time spent at LSP.

The Chanticleer
 

http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...hanticleer.jpg
Thanks for jogging my memory carguy....I knew that pic looked familiar but could not think of the name of the place for the life of me!
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...hanticleer.jpg
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Welcome Back carguy! Great to see you out here on Winni.com. You've been missed!

Amazing!
 

McDude, You have amazed me once again. You are a bottomless pit of Winnipesaukee imagery. Thanks again.

Carguy...thanks for clearing that one up and like McDude it jogged my memory too. I do remember having dinner there as a child and the view from the restaurant was spectacular. I even remember my meal, trout.

BTW I figured out where the 10th photo is. It is Lilly Pond Road and Sanborn Road where they meet at Rt 11B, Weirs Rd and looking out at the end of Governors Island. The house with 2 dormers and the barn can still be seen on google maps today.

Gee - those in the second picture have a striking resemblance to the one at Horse & Bugy in Alton. Just wondering if there is a conection such as same builder or if some where moved to Alton at some point.

Well thanks Jonas Pilot....I think....although I have never been called a pit before!!!
:D:laugh:

Memories!!
 

Wow McDude! Does that bring back memories! When I was a kid we stayed at the Chanticleer many a summer night! What a great place that was! It had a great game room in the main office building for us kids also!

I believe the owners last name at that time was Ryan... first name Bill maybe?? Anyone know whatever happened to him after he sold the place?

Thanks for bringing back great memories!!

Dan

Here's another one....
http://www.winnipesaukee.com/photopo...leerdining.jpg

I recognize the Cape Cod house with the full shed dormer on the extreme left. It still stands at the 11B & 11C intersection but it is now bright red with a green metal roof. You can't miss it on your left as you head towards the Weirs on 11B.

You nailed it! The K on the barn in the middle of the picture is King and the C is G for Grant. If you look at the King's Grant main house and barn you can see a close resemblance.

BTW, I use to teach alpine skiing with Mike Hickey at the King's Grant rope tow back in the 60's

http://www.cardcow.com/130027/horseb...t-inn-gilford/

That surely must be a different Mike Hickey than I grew up with.He broke both his legs skiing at the mighty Mcintyre ski area in Manchester.:laugh:

Micheal Hickey
 

Yes. Different Mike Hickey. If you google Mike Hickey you will see he became president of the PSIA. He was also the head of the PSIA demonstration team. When I was certified PSIA at Wachusetts, Mike flew out from Mammoth Mountain CA to personally hand me the certificate.

Chanticleer Inn
 

Ishoot308:
Jim Ryan was at the very least the manager of Chanticleer Shores. He might have been the owner, I am not really sure. My ex-husbands grandparents & parents were long time LSP residents who moved over to Chanticleer Shores when it opened up to new cottages. They built one right on the water & I spent many happy times at the lake at their camp. My mother in law sold it about 5 years ago to someone who had admired it for years. I still miss being up there. :(

Chanticleer
 

Jim Ryan was my uncle. He, my Dad, Paul Greeley, and Vic Hatem, Joe Mahoney, John Ronan bought Chanticleer circa 1960. They sold lots and ran it for many years... Jim was the general manager and they all worked on weekends. I started cleaning cottages very young... Those were great days.

My nana, Margaret Greeley ran the Inn. She was awesome.

LittleMiss61
 

All of those names are so familiar to me. I spent 15 summers going up on weekends & vacations with my husband & my daughter. She wanted so badly to purchase the camp from her grandmother, but it didn't work out that way. My daughter would say that her happiest summer days were spent up there. She played with the Hatem boys & all of the other kids up there. I am going to send her the link to these posts & pictures, I know she will be happy going down memory lane. :)

I can't recall what led to the exodus of several families from Lake Shore Park to Chanticleer.

Were they angry at Spanos / Rugg and some of their policies for LSP?

Family exodus
 

Hi John,
Absolutely. Spanos and the Ruggs became very intrusive. I don't know if all of the families felt that way, but I know that quite a few of them were upset by the management policies.
regards,
Dick

I too would like to give my condolences to you, I have had many memorable moments with Peggy and Stacey that I shall never forget ,Mr.and Mrs.Weeks were an extremely respected mother and father and loved by all. They were very much missed when they sold and left LSP.It is hard to believe that they are not now with us.
RAY WHALER,

New here..not sure if this message is going where i want it to, or going anywhere. I got curious when mr v mentioned the "ufo" message. Someone called mr v, john. I believe I know him from the summer of '68 and that he was from NJ..(Borman?). My parents were members of the LSPA until the summer of '69. The "room" brought back great memories. I see a few families are still members. I remember mentioned names like the Mercandantes and the Degroots...friends of my parents and older brothers. We had Mercandantes old site next to Degroots. Just want to know what the park is like today. I haven't been there since the summer of '70.

http://i52.tinypic.com/vsn94z.jpg dml01532, I just noticed that you are fairly new to posting on the forum and glad you have joined us. Have fun and enjoy the Winni Forum while making many new friends.

Happy Thanksgiving and it sounds as if you may of heard of some of the residence up here. You keep looking and asking question and I'm sure you will get answers.:)

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History of Lake Shore Park--MaryKay Cottage
 

I have found this entire thread to be very interesting and fascinating. The Lake has been an important part of my family's life, and it all began on Labor Day Weekend, 1973. We went away for the weekend and ended up at The MaryKay Cottage on the shores of LSP. I was just a 12 year old boy at the time, but it is probably one of the best childhood memories I have...playing ball in the water with my parents, a folk mass on Saturday evening in The Pavillion, and some older gent at the cottage next to The MaryKay who talked my father's ear off and began every sentence with, "Well anywho...."

The MaryKay was for sale at the time, I believe for $5,000.00. My parents were very tempted, but as I remember, you could only buy the cottage and not the land....not sure if that is accurate or not, but that is what I remember my parents saying. As a result, they didn't buy it, but eventually did find a place that brought them great joy the rest of their lives.

Now, as an adult with my own kids, the lake is our home-away-from-home and we owe it all to that weekend at LSP and the MaryKay cottage.

MM

Yes.. LSP is still the same. Members own their cottage/mobilhome, but they don't own any "land" Instead they hold a VMC (Voting Member Certificate) that makes them 1/310th owner/member of the LSP Association.

This setup was the result of a long court battle that went all the way to the NH Supreme Court. The Town of Gilford wanted the land and buildings to conform with the town zoning laws. End result was a settlement that set the outside measurement of all cottages and mobilhomes, and restricted the addition of any "new" sites. At the time of the settlement there was 310 "Members" and that number can never me increased.
Bottom line was the court decided that LSP Assc. Had enough land to cover the 310 member sites, (LSP owns a whole lot of land on the other side of rt 11)

The coolest part of the ruling from the court was ' (paraphrased) "LSP is like a chicken farm, the town can control the number of chicken coops, but not where they are located" result was that we can't add any more coops.

I was 23 years old, and bought in for $800! Best investment I ever made!

Yes D.L. (originally from Worcester, IIRC), it's me, John.

I moved to the west coast many years ago, but manage to get back to the lake occasionally to see family and just relax.

My family left the park many years ago; we still have a place near Ames Farm.

I wonder what ever happened to Paul?

Those UFOs were cool (thanks Dickie B from HB for showing me how!); we're lucky we didn't cause a forest fire with the danged things.

Leaving LSP for the summer
 

Well another Labor Day has come, and even though I haven't spent a summer at Lake Shore Park in over 50 years, Labor Day always brings back the memory leaving LSP and heading back down the road to New Jersey.
We had a cabin on Long Beach, four spots away from MiniHaHa (now Ellacoya).
We would leave New Jersey around the end of June and head to the lake, spend all summer there, and return home on Labor Day.
Nothing was more depressing than going back to New Jersey on Labor Day!!!
What made it even worse was that school would start the following day.
My parents would pack up the old Oldsmobile (no luggage, just laid all the clothes out in the trunk), while I would be out saying goodbye to all my friends, sometimes leaving a summer girlfriend behind.
We would close up the cabin, put the shutters on the windows, and lock the door. Then it was one last ride out through the ball field and over the bridge at the swamp and up to the pavilion to fill up on gas. Then out the bumpy dirt road past big rock (giving my father a final opportunity to curse at all the potholes) to the end and past the old Lake Shore Park sign and onto route 11.
Nothing was more painful then the ride from New Hampshire to New Jersey. Going from the pristine air of New England to the choking haze that hung over New York and northern Jersey is a memory that I would like to forget.
But, Labor Day always brings it back.

The first photo on this post was of the railroad station by McDude. I am curious to know if the gentleman who had the sign on top "LAKE SHORE PARK" ever gave it to the association? Last time I went by his pl;ace it seems he has moved on, not sure. Name of Roger

“Lake Shore Park-an Historical Cruise”, Featuring Gerrie McKenna
(Weirs, NH – Wednesday, August 19th, 7 p.m.)
Lake Winnipesaukee Museum is hosting a presentation, “Lakeshore Park-an Historical Cruise, Featuring Gerrie McKenna

The year was 1890 and the date was June 17, the Concord & Montreal Railroad finished a rail line from Lakeport to Alton Bay. This railroad ran through Lake Shore Park which was owned by the Boston & Maine railroad and was one of the stops along the way.

Through these park grounds the Lake Shore railroad runs, dividing the park proper, on the water-front from the park community establishment, which occupies the remainder of the tract, on the south side if iron highway.

Gerrie has been a resident of Lake Shore Park for over 80 years. She will present the history of Lake Shore Park with historical photographs and documents. She will bring the history from when Lake Shore Park began up to the current day.

This event is free for Lake Winnipesaukee Historical Society members, for non members there is a $5 fee with all proceeds going to benefit the Historical Society’s ongoing renovations. We are located on Route 3 in Weirs Beach, next to Funspot. Please RSVP to 366-5950.

I recall walking to the Pavillion every morning, container in hand, to hand pump drinking water from the well: it was the only potable water source.

I also recall how the well was very close to a pazoozy (sic), i.e. a communal bathroom.

The toilets drained into a septic system, not sewers.

My questions: was there regular testing of the well water to detect contaminants such as bacteria?

Any known incidents of people getting ill from contaminated well water?

Just ab fyi. I thought most setbacks from septic to wells were only mandated to be more than 100 ft. Doesn't sound like much but I dont think the bacteria get far from your system

LSP - early years
 

Love these old pics from my great grandparents. Before the cabins....

My grandparents camp is in the area shown in the second to last picture (4 up from the foot bridge). Obviously looks much different now. Was the marina there at this time or was that put in afterwards?

well
 

That well was said to be over 300 feet deep. Don't think that the seepage from the johns ever contaminated it. Never heard of anyone getting sick from the water.

Marina
 

The marina was built by Spanos and Rugg in 1960 shortly after they bought the park from the Jones family. Those pictures were taken in the 30's.

That first picture is of my mother washing clothes on the dock in front of our cabin (them days are long gone LOL. We used to wash in the lake too with a bar of soap). Back then it wasn't much of a cabin. It was a board floor with wood sides that went up about four feet. The rest of it was a tent top that was put up each summer. Jones allowed the campers to store all their equipment for the winter in the barn on the other side of route 11 outside the park.

My mom's aunt and uncle were Jim and Millie Foster. They were Scottish immigrants that lived in Andover MA. On a trip up to the lake by train, they saw the lake and the mountains, and Uncle Jim said that this area was the closest he would get to Scotland without traveling back there. Initially he had a platform with a wall tent and eventually built a cabin which he called the "Wee Hoose", Scottish dialect for little house. It was 71 years ago that I first came the lake as an infant. Since 1946, I have only missed a couple of years at the lake while I was I the military. Lots of memories of dances for the little kids, then being put to bed, and a group of parents would make the rounds of the camps to make sure the kids were ok. (Try doing that today!)(Of course, once you were put to bed, you stayed there. ) Don't know if the Wee Hoose is still there.

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I remember the Wee Hoose
 

I remember seeing the Wee Hoose as a kid. We lived four cabins down from Mini-Ha-Ha (now Elacoya). We would come up to the lake from New Jersey at the end of June and go back just before Labor Day. I always thought that no one in New Jersey had better summers than we did. It was truly a blessing to spend the summer each year at Lake Shore Park.