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Lake Placid Volunteer Fire Department

This is a photo from the Fire Department folder in our archives. It isn’t dated, though we think it’s from sometime around the late nineteen fifties or early sixties. We have most of the names of the people in the photo, all except the second man from the right, kneeling in the first row. The […]

The Brewster Building 1973 by Rusty McKenna

This original watercolor of the Brewster building on the corner or Park and Main was painted by local artist Rusty McKenna in 1973. There is a note on the back that says, “Picture taken from Brewster Bldg after fire [in 1988], frame broken.” On the far left side of the painting you can see a […]

Adirondack Family Book Festival

August 20, 2022 9:30 am – 4 pm John Brown Farm State Historic Site 115 John Brown Rd,Lake Placid, NY 12946 The Adirondack Family Book Festival brings together an illustrious and richly diverse group of children’s and YA authors and illustrators under a big convening tent and several smaller tents to meet their readers of […]

The Glidden Tour, 1950

These classic cars are parked in front of the Esso Service Center in September 1950. They made the news back then with the headline “Glidden Tour of Ancient Automobiles will Leave Mon. on 463-Mile Trip” LAKE PLACID NEWS, September 8, 1950. From our archives.

Doris, from the archives

Photograph of Doris from the library’s archives. There is a hand-written note on the back of this photo: “Doris” (90′ x 21′) Launched 1898. 4 cyl. – 55 HPGray & Bowen engineaprox. 12 MPH @ 525 RPM30 x 36 3 blade propSold 1951 to Mrs. Nohowel for $500.00