A Roari ng twenti es Wi nter GALA

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1 HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE welcomes you to A Roari ng twenti es Wi nter GALA January 20, 2018

2 Thank you for supporting HISTORIC SARANAC LAKE Founded in 1980, Historic Saranac Lake is a not-forprofit architectural preservation organization that captures and presents local history from our center at the Saranac Laboratory Museum. Be sure to visit our temporary exhibit, The Roaring Twenties: Check in to a Grand Hotel. Inspired by the rebirth of the Hotel Saranac, the exhibit will be on display through fall of Church Street Historic Saranac Lake is pleased to welcome tonight s guest of honor, local historian, Phil Bunk Griffin. Your mountain home companion since 1994 at

3 TONIGHT S PROGRAM GREAT HALL 7:00 7:45 ENJOY hors d oeuvres & complimentary drink TAP YOUR FEET to piano by Drew Benware GREAT HALL 7:45 8:00 RAISE A GLASS with Amy Catania LEND AN EAR to Fred B. Roedel GREAT HALL & BALLROOM 8:00 11:00 DANCE to the music of Crackin Foxy SAVOR hors d oeuvres & complimentary drinks BID on the silent auction before it closes at 9:00! STRIKE A POSE courtesy of Clix Photo Booths OAK ROOM SPEAKEASY 8:00 11:00 WHISPER the password for your 1920s cocktail PHONE BOOTHS 7:00 11:00 SHARE your Hotel Saranac memories

4 GOLD SPONSOR JNK Home Enterprises LLC proud leaders of the restoration of the Hotel Saranac. BUILDING YOUR FUTURE. RENOVATING YOUR PAST. Commercial and Residential Remodeling. Our mission is to achieve the highest quality of workmanship in all phases of our projects. 28 LOGAN AVENUE, GLENS FALLS, NY JNK-LLC.COM 1927 The Hotel Saranac opens with 100 rooms. It is a modern, fireproof hotel built for a growing middle class enamored with the automobile. Catering to vacationers, the hotel advertises that it admits no invalids. Postcard, c.1930, courtesy of Nora Bouvier.

5 GOLD SPONSOR 1926 White Pine Camp near Paul Smiths serves as President Calvin Coolidge's Summer White House. While here for the summer, the President and First Lady attend the First Presbyterian Church of Saranac Lake. Calvin Coolidge, Courtesy of Lynn Newman.

6 GOLD SPONSOR Hyde Fuel proudly supports Historic Saranac Lake and Hotel Saranac, two institutions that are integral to our community. 1920s An underground world of bootleggers, rumrunners, and still operators emerges during prohibition. Organized crime thrives. Notorious gangster Jack Legs Diamond comes to Saranac Lake often to visit his brother Eddie, ill with tuberculosis. Legs Diamond, Public Domain Image.

7 GOLD SPONSOR 1926 The Alpine Hotel was built on Broadway in Saranac Lake. It was once the tallest building between Albany and Montreal. Rosalind Russell stayed at the Alpine in the late 1920s when she acted with Saranac Lake's summer tent theater. The hotel was demolished in Postcard courtesy of Mary Hotaling.

8 SILVER SPONSORS 1926 Saranac Lake's first town hall burns in a spectacular fire. It is replaced by a fireproof structure designed by Scopes and Feustmann, architects of the Hotel Saranac. The steel frame for the new town hall goes up quickly. Courtesy of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

9 SILVER SPONSORS SMALL FORTUNE STUDIO 76 Main Street, Saranac Lake Tim has had a presence on Main Street in our historic village for the past 23 years with his gallery. He has worked hard through the years to revitalize our community through the arts and welcomes the opportunity to support the mission of Historic Saranac Lake by donating an original oil painting Saranac Lake s Winter Carnival was a spectacular affair during the roaring twenties. The 1920 Winter Carnival featured a grand parade of decorated floats, sleighs, and automobiles, as well as national skating and ski jumping championships. Courtesy of Natalie Leduc.

10 FRIEND SPONSORS 1928 Theatrical agent and manager William Morris builds his home on Lake Colby, called Camp Intermission. In the basement, a bar is hidden behind a door camouflaged to look like a stone wall. Al Jolson, center, talking with William Morris at Union Station. Courtesy of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise.

11 FRIEND SPONSORS 1928 Construction begins on the National Vaudeville Artists' Home to care for workers in the entertainment industry with tuberculosis. The facility is later re-named the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital. Postcard courtesy of Leslie Hoffman.

12 OUR THANKS FOR SILENT AUCTION DONATIONS AND OTHER SUPPORT Adirondack Architectural Heritage, Adirondack Carousel Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Adirondack Wine and Liquor Ampersand Salon and Spa at the Hotel Saranac Campfire Adirondack Grill + Bar at the Hotel Saranac Cape Air, Clix Photo Booths The Community Store, Compass Printing Plus Eco Living, Empire Merchants Phil Leonidas Fiddlehead Bistro, Fortune Studio Great Adirondack Brewing Company Great Hall Bar at the Hotel Saranac Green Goat Maps Jim Griebsch The Kollecker Collection at the Saranac Lake Free Library Elwin and Charlotte Hall, High Peaks Distributing, LLC The Hotel Saranac, Hyde Fuel Little Italy, Olympic Regional Development Authority Pendragon Theatre, Gordon W. Pratt Agency Raquette River Brewing, Scott s Florist Spencer Boatworks, T.F. Finnigan The Dance Sanctuary, The Wild Center And our thanks to the Members of Historic Saranac Lake! 1923 T.F. Finnigan opens on Main Street, selling fashions inspired by golf, tennis, and the automobile. Today, the store is still in the family and is operated by T. F. Finnigan s grandson. Lake Placid News Ad, 1924.