hi Ranger Canoe....hey....that little picture of the red canoe of your's....I have a Ranger canoe that looks just like that, identical in shape, except it has an old A-Row-Bic slide seat, row-rig in the middle, and it rows real good! Bought the Ranger, a 20-year old fiberglass fixer-upper last spring from a Meredith guy for about $200, and it is good-to-go for another 20-years. Black vinyl gunnels, hardwood oak or maple seats with broken down seat canning (that's been repaired w/grey canvas type material from Walmart) and sturdy light weight fiberglass! A very nice el cheapo Ranger Canoe because I hear they cost the big-bucks when brand new!
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Concerning my post on Bombardier and a Seadoo-Skidoo manufactorer. Can only wish it would be happening! Some big employer like that, a manufactorer of expensive items with a strong demand would be definately excellent for the area.
Probably, the two biggest manufactorers in the area are Freudenburg-NOK(German-Japan partners) in Bristol which makes silicone injected automobile parts such as gaskets, and other soft car parts. Another manufactorer is Pine Tree castings, a-way over in Newport NH, a division of the Sturm Ruger Co, the biggest handgun and rifle maker in the U.S.
As far as I know, the old Freudenburg-NOK plant on Hounsell Ave Laconia, which employed about 150 up till two years ago is still vacant, closed and FOR SALE, and just waiting for a new owner to move in and get down to making car parts or something!
Would be nice to see a company build on Route 104 similar to the big Vu-tek factory in either New Hampton or Meredith. Currently, both of the commercial construction projects on Route 104 in Meredith; Golden View Health Care and the Visiting Nurse's, are health care related and are probably non-profit and property tax exempt........oh well.....at least they employ people.
Over on Scenic Drive, just north of Weirs Beach; earth moving construction has started up at the Meredith Bay waterfront townhouse project
www.meredithbaynh.com on a steep hillside just above the lakefront embankment railroad tracks and future route of the WOW Trail. About 30-years ago, that spot was home to a chinese restaurant, so I've been told, and some concrete foundation pieces are still there? Anyone know what was there, on that Scenic Drive hill top, look-out location that looks across Meredith Bay to Spindle Point tower.
I betcha there's a good strong chance that somebody reading this can recall eating a pu-pu platter from that very spot back in 1979! Were you ever there?