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HISTORY IS COOL: 90 years ago

March 4, 1932

Grandstands down

Olympic grandstands, which for the past months have necessarily barred the view of the Lake Placid High School, are now being taken down.

The lumber, much of it Douglas fir shipped here from the Northwest, will be sold to builders and contractors. Other lumber will be used to build a housing shed near the stadium where the portable stands and hockey boxes will be stored through the summer.

Bobrun closes

Built to stage the bobsled races of the III Olympic Winter Games, the bobrun on Mount Van Hoevenberg closed for the season on Wednesday following the Adirondack Junior Championship.

Popular since it was opened to the public last winter, the mile and one-half slide down the mountain has been visited by thousands of people both in summer and winter. The sledding season was short this winter because of mild weather earlier in the year.

Palace backup

Through the medium of new equipment recently installed, the Palace Theatre is insured against delays in performances due to failure of electric current. Up to the time when talking pictures were installed, emergency equipment delivering the necessary light was available through a gas engine and generator in the basement of the theater. With the installation of the talking picture equipment, this installation became useless.

The new equipment makes necessary only the throwing over of a switch to obtain light in the theater and a matter of two or three minutes for the starting of the gas engine to obtain the current for the operation of the entire equipment.

School congestion

Three sections comprising one grade of the Lake Placid High School will move to remodeled rooms in the town hall on Monday. This step was found necessary because of the congested condition found in the central school.

Last fall, the basement of St. Eustace Church was leased for the use of the first grades of the school, and the rooms which they had previously occupied were turned over to other grades.

Members of the town board and the school board agreed that by remodeling the theater in the town hall, some relief may be felt in the main building which for a number of years has been considered overcrowded.

Hotels close

The Hotel Marcy, Lakeside Inn, St. Moritz and Belmont have closed their doors within the last week and are to remain closed until the early summer months.

Following the extreme rush of business during the games, a fraction of which is found each winter during the sports periods, comes the slack time of the spring when few visitors are expected and the hotels close for a short vacation before the start of the summer season.

The Hotel Alford will remain open. Shops which open for the winter season pull their curtains, their personnel returning to the cities.