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I
can remember my folks and our family & friends being at Blue
Horizon when World War II ended. My uncle Bill who passed
away a year ago and whose wife Evelyn still lives on the lake was on
leave from the army. He had rented a horse and was in the
campground when the fire trucks and sirens came by declaring the end
of the war. The horse took off real fast with him on it.
It was a big celebration in the camp that night. It was
something I will never forget.
We
used to roller skate all the time at the Bowery. That was the
hangout for all the kids on the lake and it was so sad when it burned
down. We used to watch the butcher cut meat at the Bowery
grocery store and pump gas out front. Those were the good years.
Blue
Horizon was a thriving grocery store with a laundry mat next door.
That was so convenient. My folks had a cottage behind the chapel
and I stayed there all summer with my Grandmother and walk to Blue
Horizon to get groceries and walk back to the cottage.
Blue
Horizon had a resort across the street from Bozo's and that is where
we were staying at the time of my story. Bozo's was the grocery
store, and the Laundromat was attached to the side of the store.
Tigglemans
had the first inboard boat on the lake, and they tipped over in front
of our dock and my Dad and my husband helped get them out. Also
one summer we were on the lake with our boat and was pulling a winter
toboggan on the back. We were having a blast on the lake.
Then Dick DeVoe made a water toboggan and patented it. But it
was us that started it.
Lorna
Lubbers
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I
now own one of the former Blue Horizon cabins. I heard years ago
they were purchased and skidded accross the ice (1920's??) to there
current location. This from the daughter of the owner in the
sixties. Having remodeled one of the cabins, the construction was of
oak when when 2"x4" really ment 2"x4". The
property still has the foundations of the old outhouses. I
have friends who have seen bobcats on the trail behind Bozo's. I
have seen them a couple miles to the north while out shinnig deer. Dave
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