LP Club turns 30 - The Lake Placid Club will celebrate its 30th birthday tomorrow, Aug. 16, with an all-day program of sports, speeches, music and fireworks. The Club was founded by Dr. Melvil Dewey 30 years ago this summer as a scholar’s club, a little university in the wilderness, ...

Sole Olympic bid - Lake Placid probably would have won the 1980 Winter Olympics bid in competition with Vancouver, British Columbia, and now that Vancouver has withdrawn, it is certain to be the site. This is what Douglas F. Roby, the United States representative on the International ...

Golf course opens - The official opening of Lake Placid’s new country club was auspicious in every respect. The crowd was good and in good humor, and the golf course was wonderful considering that only 10 weeks ago no work on it had been done. Of course, there is much room for improvement ...

Ironman Lake Placid - Ironman is here and it’s here to stay, according to Ironman President Graham Fraser, who announced Tuesday, July 27 that the headquarters for United States events will be permanently located in Lake Placid. This means that Ironman USA officials have designated ...

Vaudeville show - The all-star vaudeville production at the Happy Hour Theater on Monday evening, July 28, in aid of the Adirondack Fund for the Tuberculosis, promises in the words of its promoters to bring “Times Square to Placid.” Dr. Edgar Mayer in giving this benefit attraction ...

Cascade Road - A large force of workmen under the general direction of Harry Graves of AuSable Forks of the state highway department is busy putting the finishing touches on the Cascade highway to get it in shape for heavy summer travel while the Wilmington Road through the Notch is being ...