couple of comments that are now instruments before we get started with the presentation about a couple upcoming programs one is the launch and the talk at lookout park on the east side of lake fail on the other one is for an antique car show out of tire burned to repair ditch farm and there's brochures on the back table if you're interested in more details we also have a sign up page for if you put your e mail address on there will send you notices of she's holding it up in the back with that which you can sign up to get e mail some other programs we also have them posted on our web page which is w maplewood historical society dot org and other ways if you like some of the topics that we've been presenting or if you go to our web page you'll see a list of opportunities for volunteers and while we like to have people become members we also appreciate anybody this interested local history that wants to help out with their projects everything we do is done by all interiors we hire a consultant for specific activities like grant writing but everything else depends on the interest in abilities and knowledge of people that just come forward to support local history another way to check things out is just come to our monthly meeting which is the second wednesday cooperation with the county library we have some other programs coming up that you may want to keep track of watch on our web page september eleventh a local historian jeff williams who is a member of our group and he's also on the state commission for civil war history he's going to give a talk on the civil war tobar second someone talking about the archaeology of native americans nov thirteenth another society member david lido will talk about the history of south maplewood now i'd like to transitional little bit and give you some brief background  boat speaker for tonight shark was a look as a long time member of the city of maplewood community besides being a wife and mother of three children she served on the maplewood city council in the early  ninety s she helped to develop citizen support to pass a bond referendum to purchase open space areas around maplewood including the one where we are using two and a half acres for the heritage farm also was a founding member of the maplewood historical society back in one thousand nine hundred five and she served as a president of the society for several years and is currently on the board of directors as the past president in hundred ninety eight she and another member were co chairs of the committee to save the broom for farm buildings which we were successful in doing with the legislature after about five months lobbying effort i think that's most of what i know about shar she also is a member of the heritage preservation commission for two or three years so she's been quite active in the community but she's been a long time resident near lake fail and that's what she's going to talk about tonight so would you help me i was kind of suppliers surprised the wildlife back when my granddaughter natalie talked about her lake and maybe some of you here tonight think of it as your leg but this evening we're going to talk a little bit about grandpa lake fail and here is kind of a later picture of grandpa to go on the por of his home charles so i guess i don't was born in the black forest area of germany in eight hundred fifty five he came to america was his father frederick in eighteen seventy three when he was eighteen years old they lived in the german community on date and bluff on margaret street near arcade and  married mary camper in eight hundred eighty and mary camper lived had lived near where the farmer's market is today and rosabel street that was also a german community and by eighteen eighty five he owned a hardware store and he seven near arcade in the back of the room i have an eight hundred fifty nine mamp that refers to feel in slate and and he had many brushes with the law and in he left the area with a caravan to go to the california gold fields and he was killed by his fellow travelers oh this beautiful lake was named for him ok i had to make to point out a few places along the east side of the and then as you go a little farther north along the lake you come to live under avenue now is south of larp and st paul and in the early days that was called overbro avenue north of printer is new canada township and that was called failand boulevard now it just down the hill at liar pender  was the linksys landing and i'll be talking about these places and then in the little box that you see there is frank street well grandpa lived right on the lake it and thin as you goals north we have lookout park which will be having an event there next week or the  you come around to round lake ok and then this is a nineteen twenty one aerial map of the area but it's taken it's looking solved so that down at the bottom there is what they call killer creek and then there's round lake and then over on the other side by lot of pender there you can see some little white  maybe that's where we lived can't quite make out what they are you know we lived in these tents one of these tents and  are made with wooden floors and would up the back and then screen in canvas and they were printed out to city dwellers in the summer my parents and several other of the relatives lived in these tents for the summer the family home was on market street there is another beautiful town and this is the home of my grandfather's home and though that's my parents there my dad and my mother and my older brother  and this is me in the the property went straight up to the street and then had a couple of steps down that i'm sitting on but now there is kind of a boulevard in there but they didn't have that at the time and they always had a swing i thought so i have a swing like that my yard today kind of in a style ject when i was due to be born in july of one nine hundred twenty one my mother went to my grandparents home where i was born and those certificate says i was born on overbrook avenue under and i am sure that's wrong because it was new in canada and i was live in cabin on dawson's addition to lakeside kark and lakeside park has the names are named to almost all the streets are named for dawson's many children and you'll see  thousand twenty four so i lived with my grandparents for several years north of us a couple hoses north of us where the silver assigned to me had a dire green hunter green cabin with porch around and they were in the woolen business we bought our wall in swimsuits from them i went to finance where the elementary school so mr nelson picked me up in his grocery truck and drove me to fire into his school on his way to his grocery nelson brothers grocery store  was the school board of district twenty one gladstone school his brother is built the first tell us a good street and the stark family lived on millie start dean former member of the society was the granddaughter of tara linky historical society member carol mara who is here tonight is the daughter of millie and more than one char phillips family lived in the area there were a few houses sprinkled around and ripley had a farmhouse in the swanson house and this carol meyer tells me she gave us this picture and she tells me those are her grandparents in the water there so i don't really know the da and this sheriff would come by now and then and chase us out and so on and it was out of sight we were back and we hike to the beach for swimming lessons and other events and during the depression years of public works administration put in a lifeguard had a lifeguard at linkages and then they put in some stone steps so we could get up and down the steep hill and this was not just local people these were people that came to link these from miles around and larpent or avenue continued on the west side of the lake this is a ninety no to a street car resident rode across the lake to get the street car or they walked across the ice in the winter or they walked around the north end of the lake in the street kind of head to one attendance one was the motor men and the other was a conductor in the conductor there was kind of a little platform in the back where we got on right inside the door where this was a c plaid form and then the door into the seating area and the conductor stood there and he had a little box that you would put you took and he'd also sell tokens just happen to have a token holder here with a few tokens rea of st paul by in one nine hundred fifty we had busses and this was the station that was there and i'm not sure when that was torn down but that there was a very nice brick station i would go around the west side of the late this time we'll start with round lake again bridge going from the island into the creek and the street car station and then the picnic pavillion  talking a little bit about some of those areas feel impaired was a gathering place for leisure activities for the surrounding area with winter and summer johnny weissmuller  there for an event in one thousand thirty one and johnny weissmuller was a swimming champion and olympic swimming champion and star of the tarzan movies and he drew a huge crowd of this is the beach and this was had a lot of activities there the big slides had kind of a small toboggan on them that you would sit on and it would take it way out into the lake and they had three diving towers and they have smaller slides for the younger kids too i don't really see any there but i know they had smaller sites this was a nineteen twenty five picture of bath house and the concession stand and you see that truck there it probably looks like the one  this was built in one thousand and thirty eight the bath house and that was put up by the w p a and the w p a renovated and put up several of the buildings in the park  i'm pretty proud of that car the gillette children's hospital was about one block from the beach just outside of the park this is the band sometimes called the band shell a bandstand band concerts and community things brought out hundreds of people and much of the audience were in their parked cars near the bandstand and at the end of each selection they would honk their horns lot of lee in appreciation for smiters the young people like to hang out at the community sayings and meet friends in screen was put could sing along d quite a few people there to hear the band this is the picnic pavilion that i remember and that was rated above where that's where you saw that seating going down the bandstand when the wind was right we could hear the concerts across the lake where we lived sometimes in the summer we also got a whiff of the sound same proper plants it wasn't quite so nice and at four pm we could hear the of the capital steamer coming back from but still a trip through the haze taking flocks winter carnivals events took place through the years at the park and around the lake there were many attractions there was no lake and ice fishing bargain slides were erected and skating rinks were cleared off first skating and a small warming house was on the lake i think that's a warming house know what the date that picture did not have a date on it i think it's probably in the twenty's is my guess and toboggan sites were put in and one of the  heavy that they parked on our side of the lake can walk to cross the lake to see an ice palace now this is a scene of people walking across a lake this always the house and when the iceman delivered ice to our house he didn't have to come in the house and get grandma's floors wet and dirty with dripping ice a opening in the back of the ice box open onto the back porch the man could put the ice right in without going inside and  then she would put up other card in the window indicating how many pounds of ice she needed that day groceries were delivered by shocks or sometimes mr nelson went drop them off and the milk in the other and there is a killer old grandpa up there on the right side in the back and this is grandpa otto with what we think was a snow globe anyway we think it was legal anyway he is in front of a pink building that was put there by the and sometimes some of the link is lived in it this was right behind grandpa otto a sou so i don't have a date on that either but grandpa like to hunt and fish the fishing was good at failing and he storage his handmade bow down at linking is and he had a early on weekend mornings he would get up early quiet fishing come back clean the fish and they were ready to fry for breakfast and we had quite a lot of those and they were usually crappy it's motors are not allowed to fail and i think maybe a little trolling motor has been a lot but we rarely see any out there and this reminds me of the lazy hazy days of summer the sign says country club country club but not very visible but still there and it included because of course in badminton and other recreational activity and a large ball room and  maxine's wedding reception was held there in the one nine hundred thirty s it is now a private residence romy slowly act and feel faint check live there now and they are excellent caretakers of the former club they invited me to tour their home for a while back and it's been changed but one can still still see a lot of the things that have been there in the past the lower level you can see where the man's and women's shower rooms were in there were there are other buyers the old bars are still there and you can enter the lower level there to goal into part of it not very clear but they were able to bring it out so i really kind of delighted with it this is a lot that was on the lake in the thirty's i remember that and the launch in the  club and this was a walking passageway i don't know why i had just called it the whole lot but it served as a passageway for the residential section it went under the tracks of bank so they could kept a breeze while trying to sleep if they have time the road went all the way around the lake and the young people spent a lot of time just cruising around and around the lake fourth of july fireworks were launched over the lake from the hill near the canoe docks and the crowds filled in all around and a good viewing point was a hill just south of linking kelly park and kelly's pavilion was at the north end of the lake and the gladstone community club this this is a picture of the second and but they say some this difference of opinion how long it was there but i don't remember the fierce will there are so this must have been a very special occasion that they brought in i don't think i was there all the time sold them to dealers around and i bought firecrackers and small firecrackers and sparklers and all kinds of things at kelly's and we also went there to get our snacks our ice and and all kinds of snacks they would sell their and that was probably that i remember in the thirty's so i really i'm not sure how long it was there we went to keller's grocery store in gladstone on frosty have known to get some of our supplies they had two grocery stores two gas stations and a hardware store and cousin lloyd newman had a biber shop there  to gladstone schools to climb up the circle who circular fire escape and we always had they have good tennis shoes so we could get up the slippery slide and then slide back down in the eight hundred eighty s a and the thought at the time was that cold was treatment for cheap be so he would chop a hole in the ice and take tips in the winter time and john was into physical fitness and he had punching bags and all kinds of equipment in his house and he quickly made friends with all the neighbors he thought some of our excellent swimmers in the area might go to the olympics but that didn't happen he had a three wheeled motorcycle with a box on the side and he would put some of the neighborhood kids in the box and go out to wildwood park for the freebies on trainers day there were no seat belts  d and later he joined the merchant marine some when he came back he brought gifts from the orient for the children and that was always a big deal well stone elementary was the school that most attended but for high school for junior high and it was clear even in junior high in johnson high school that they went to leaner students were bused to north st paul junior and senior high after nine hundred fifty two and my daughter sandy went half a year to the old school and then her class march over to the new score when it was ready two identical metal bridges in the park and they were built in one thousand almost six one was near the picnic pavilion a few years ago they put the name of carlo knight bridge on it for our neighborhood activists and the other is the creek going from field an interim round lake now with cars went over that bridge by round lake than descript bridge that was there know it's there now some of our family are still upset and i have a picture of one of the bridges in the back of the room now north of lake or no longer creek or stone markers referred to as tablets and one was a forty fifth parallel marker and several were for women's clubs and they went several of them over a  long couple of many way were along the creek and then this one was right by the frost avenue bridge and this was a washington memorial called monument and most were put in around one thousand nine hundred thirty two many of the brass markers have now what are the brass or whatever they were i have been removed purpose this is a nine hundred twenty five picture of the frost avenue bridge looks like about a nineteen twenty five car going under there  this is the one nine hundred thirty bridge that was put in a nine hundred thirty this was a very attractive bridge i think and about twenty five or thirty years ago ramsey county changed the rule and so that cars could no longer goal under what we called the eco bridges because when you blew your horn as you went under there it made a loud echo and that in the back as the railroad bridge you can see a little part of that there it's now walking trail now there is another bridge started or it's open now but i don't think it's totally completed and that was started in two thousand and eleven there was a big arrow on the corner of sixty one highway sixty one in frost that told you where to turn to get to the same paul tourist cabins the cabins were used by travelers and also by summer residence and after world war two housing started to spring up at me area in the cabins were often used as temporary housing while people waited for those supplies to be available because they were in short  this is one of the very convenient cabins was the phone booth right outside the door thought school was i had already started to have clay and stone one of the new teachers lived in the cabin until her house was ready she had some of her she and some of her family are still in gladstone houses were filling in the open fields in the vacant lots grandpa i don't have died in one thousand forty four at the age of eighty nine and he was still living in his home on the east shore of lake failon but by bedtime i was married and we were thinking about building our own hala some good street we were one of the families that lived in the tourist it seemed like there were kids there were a lot of kids in the families at that time it was a great place to raise a family there were carnivals and plays in building of shacks in the open fields and all sorts of activities during the holidays  went to the ramsey county poor farm to entertain the residents there the fleas shake family moved next door to us and many of us know fred as the baseball enthusiastic that started the gladstone baseball team and when they started building on the vacant lots there where they were playing things moved the sitting i think gave them property upon  course the first of thirty three st paul opens were held there and those who tours the clubhouse you will see memorabilia and pictures of famous players tournaments that had been there in the twenty's and thirty's proas played the municipal courses because it was considered high profile of at that often played regularly at keller in the twenty's and thirty's and this included john from the police evidently adjacent to the course and he left his clubs behind this is an aerial view of keller and i don't know can you see can you point out where the train tracks were there that he me where the course was along actually went pretty close to and cameron to lose there now with his mother my granddaughter susan and their family live right across the street from us so those are the six generations of our family who have lived now this is grandpa's house that looks today and architect moved into the house in nineteen seventy one and then later  he remodeled it and totally changed it and it was featured in the better homes and gardens magazine and the same paul dispatch and other publications and the architect purchased the house next door he sold this one and he purchased sound snake store and remodeled that and he's done he lives there now and he and his wife live there in he has done a lot of designing and renovating of other buildings kohl's is in the area it is so great to go out on a nice day and see families walking around the lake and enjoying the lake in the park and the trail around the lake is used winter in summer for runners walkers bikers and whole families gather to enjoy the outdoors the late can spend the project of the washington ramsey washington metro watershed district for cleanup native plantings have been put around the lake to prevent new or ocean rainwater gardens have been installed and to filter the water before it goes to the lake and a small group of people started as the friends of lake failon have their button now called stewards keep an eye on the lake and report any problems that they say you took of st paul city council and then it was renovated by the w p a after that now just recently they finished what they said was a rehabilitation and restoring of the stone arch bridge and this celebration was held the water fest that was held there on saturday june second and many dignitaries attended it including our own mayor of maple od will ross backed and what a fast was very successful had a large crowd there is something i recommend people to go to they have one every year and many people help me put this together and i would like to mention a few bob jensen of the society help me with all this technical stuff here and janice quick i got information from her and my daughter sandy and my sons terry and scott and it has greatly appreciated and i would like to end was a quote that i like from the minnesota historical press its history informs us history inspires us and history defines us so if you have any questions i'd be glad to try to answer them not by we clock i don't remember that was before my time and the other questions yes and naturally it's only home and it's yeah it's often the only swimming board beach within the city limits you know and and it is a natural lake fork to add water to the lake because it seemed to be leaking and it was going lower and lower and you know they even put up a dam across i move away from this mike i'm sorry anyway  them across just near the beach so they thought that was the area that was leaking you know so they put that they haven't crossed and then they didn't discover that it probably was from dredging  late at that time to make the swimming beach and when they put the right kind of soil and things down there and stop the loss of water from the late and sat now it's pretty it's back to normal and the other questions oh ok well thank you very much