Back in the early 70's when I first started going to the Lake it was with a very good friend of mine who's family owned the Margate. We use to go there on weekends and stay with his Grandmother who live in the house attached to the motel. She use to do all the laundry for the place and she would make us go gather all the dirty sheets and towels and bring them to her. In the spring we had to take all the lawn furniture out of the tunnel that went underground down to the lake. That was before the expansion of the lakefront building. Now that tunnel connects those buildings. We didn't get paid but we got free room and board. She was Italian, Mrs. Antico, so the meals alone were worth the work.
