Brochure

My cousin happened to send yesterday a photocopy via email of this old brochure from Olallie Lake Resort, our family vacation spot every summer of my youth, and long afterwards as well with my own family as an adult. That's my dad on the right side of the top picture, with all the trout laid out on the paper. I remember that he was a bit irritated at the time because flies were buzzing around the fish as these photos were being taken. Note the prices of the cabins--5 dollars per day for small, 6 for large. Can't beat them prices, can ya? But, of course, it was a long time ago. 

There were 10 cabins in all, which had been built by the owner, Ed Upton--and the first few by Ed's father. These were basic, rustic, wooden dwellings, each with an iron stove (blocks of wood supplied by the Resort), one or two beds, a table and benches, a chair or two on the porch. Lighting was by kerosene lamp, or by a Colman lamp that one would bring along from home. Water was available from a faucet outside, piped up from the lake, and bathroom 'facilities' were available in the form of four outhouses, two up the hill between cabins 2 and 3, two down the way near cabin 8. The Resort Store was at the bottom of the trail, where the dirt road ended, and there was also a Resort kitchen, for the Upton family, and a set of small bedrooms. There was a boat dock in front of the store and a number of wooden (and, later, aluminum) rowboats for fishing. Motorboats were prohibited, given that the lake was used for drinking water.