04/07/2026
This is an old postcard of the resort, postmarked July 12, 1939. Bruce and Pearl McKinty were still the owners at that time. While it is postmarked 1939, we know the image is several years older. We have aerial photos from 1929 and 1934 which both show the store building is already in place, and advertising dating the store to 1927, so by the time this postcard was mailed out, it was already old stock.
Looking from left to right you can see present day Cottage #1, and then the store with the 3 windows across the gable. Behind it you can see the roof and chimney of a log house which was rented out at one time and later came to be the resort's icehouse for the iceboxes in the cottages. On the extreme right you can see part of the roof of the original cottage #3. Only cottage #1 survives.
In May 1955, the icehouse, the store and the original cottage #3 burned down after a chimney fire spread. Ross and Grace Smith, the owners at the time of the fire, survived the fire and rebuilt, with a 4 bedroom cottage now occupying the store's old footprint, and the new store was re-located to the waterfront.
