Adirondack Memories is a Mountain Lake Public Television Production Produced and Hosted by Derek Muirden. The hour long special has a dozen segments on great Adirondack memories as recalled by the people who lived them. Among the stories told are:
The Early Auto Industry Cranks Into High Gear In Plattsburgh, NY. The world famous Lozier automobile, expensive, luxurious and sought after by bank presidents and gangsters alike was made in Plattsburgh, NY. Billed as "Appropriately Expensive" the Lozier dominated the luxury automotive market from about 1900 to about 1917 even beating out the legendary Pierce Arrow in popularity.
100 Year Old Ice Cream Parlor Still Scooping The Favorites. The Main Street Ice Cream Parlor in Chestertown, NY, has been around for over 100 years. It is one of only eight remaining all Coca Cola fountains in the entire nation. Today, only the prices have changed. The atmosphere and the old fashioned way of doing things, from the traditional banana split to a cherry coke or a lime rickey haven't changed a bit in over a century. And if it's not on the extensive menu of fountain specialties just let the "Soda Jerk" know how to make it and you'll be sipping and scooping in no time!
Silent Film Era Soars In The Adirondacks. Port Henry, Ausable Chasm and the Saranac River are just a few of the locations that were used when the silent film industry set up shop in the Adirondacks from the turn of the 20th Century and for the next 27 years. In fact, before there was a Hollywood, The Adirondacks were a favorite location for film makers. Pearl White filmed some of her popular "Cliff Hanger" serial "The Perils of Pauline" at Port Henry. Marion Davies, a Diva of the silent era used Plattsburgh and surrounding areas for her 1927 silent epic "Marion Davies."
The Great Log Drives Vividly Recalled By Levi White Who Was There. When Logging was the main industry in the Adirondacks, whole forests of trees were chopped down by hand then stacked at the rivers edge in wait of the Spring flood. When the rivers rose the logs were rolled into the white water and splashed their way down stream to the waiting mills. Adirondacker Levi White, 89, worked the logging camps as a young man and easily recalls the days when, in the Adirondacks, only horse power, man power and the raging rivers got the logs out of the forest and into the saw mills.
