The ice pyramid is seen in Berkeley Square with the decorated Berkeley Hotel in the background. My friend Phil — King, Bunk, Mountain Al — Griffin, who has one of the best Facebook pages in the North Country, has just featured this picture. No date is available, but it probably was in the early 1920s.

This space covered quite a bit of national news last week and some local news. Now from the same old, old copy of that long-ago Enterprise … from Page 2 …

“Points of interest seldom visited in winter will be the end of the trail for ski trips this season, according to members of the Lake Placid Ski Club who are planning the Club’s winter program.

“Among the trips scheduled under capable leaders are Indian Pass, the Klondike section, Avalanche Pass, ascent of Mt. Marcy and Mt. McIntyre. Also expected to find approval will be the new network of trails through the Sentinel Range in the Sunrise Notch section which may be reached by the Connery Pond and Notch Trail link, or by automobile to the old Notch house site. Plans for a shelter in this section are underway.

“Arrangements are being made for the improvement of the Grand View practice slope to be enlarged by rolling the wire back from the tennis courts and leveling the banks with snow.

“The club has set the main events of the year as including two senior jumps, total point score in both to count for one prize; a cross country race, the route which is now being determined; junior and senior slalom races at the Country Club course and the junior and senior downhill races at the Whitney Trail.

An Enterprise ad from Dec. 27, 1934

“Plaques, trophies and medals have just been awarded 18 members of the ski club for their performances last winter. As the trophies were late in arriving in the summer their award was postponed further to snow time. William Swift, first in the downhill (no wonder, with that last name), and second in the slalom senior races, received the plaque offered for the combined events. Robert Welscopf, third place winner in the junior division, also was awarded a plaque. William Warrington who first prize in the cross country and third in the senior jumping events was presented with a trophy cup.

“Others who received awards were James Colby, Matthew Monohan Jr., David Jones, Edward Doyle Jr., Ronald MacKenzie, Tony Oliver, Paul Colby, Harold Monohan, Donald Ryan, Donald Macy, James Colby and Irving Lawrence.”

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Officer bags deer with revolver

“Game Protector William Winters (he didn’t work summers) bagged a buck with a revolver during the past season. The episode occurred in October but the news leaked only within the past few days.

Enterprise ads from Dec. 27, 1934

“Winters is one of the crack revolver shots of the game protective force and has been awarded several prizes for his skilled marksmanship. He is attached to the Saranac Lake division.

“According to the story he was returning from patrol duty in Essex County on October 28 and was armed with a 38 special Colt revolver owned by Protector Charles Myers of Watervliet, which has been sent to him for some adjustments. He saw the deer some distance away and decided inasmuch as he had a special deer license he might as well try his luck. One shot brought the fleeing animal down. It was an eight-point buck and measurements revealed that he had hit the mark from a distance of 126 feet with the deer running at top speed.”

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Christmas celebration at Ray Brook San

“With the passing of Christmas, celebrated in royal style, Ray Brook sanatorium has returned to humdrum Adirondack winter life, patients settling in for a long siege of Arctic weather before the return from southern lands of the San’s flock of Mallard ducks. (There was a beautiful pond, with a spacious lean-to, located at the San, packed with skaters in the winter months.)

“The holiday observances were opened Saturday when a Christmas tree was given for children of employees, all of whom received gifts.

“Christmas eve a huge Christmas tree erected on the circle in front of the Administration building was lighted for the first time. Christmas was the banner day of the year. Early in the morning patients of the four wings made presents for their nurses and exchanged gifts among themselves.

“When the patients trooped into the dining room they beheld a beautiful scene. Every table bore three lighted red candles and evergreens adorned them and a large basket of assorted fruits, their colors blending perfectly, graced the center of each table. The whole presented a fairy land spectacle.

“In this perfect setting a perfect dinner was served, with turkey the piece de resistance.

“Patients and staff were unanimous in praising the chefs for their excellent preparation of the dinner and the corps of waiters and waitresses for their masterly service of the various courses.”

(The father of Rosalind Reibel Dietz and Virginia Reibel Queior, who still live in Ray Brook, was the head chef at Ray Brook, like forever. When we lived in Ray Brook at the big Oseetah Dairy, which milked 80 registered Holsteins, in the early ’40s. We participated in various events at the San. When movies were shown in the evening for the patients, local kids were allowed to attend. Frank Lezak’s store, ice cream bar and restaurant was the social center of the “back road,” just a stone’s throw from the dairy.)

“As patients were released there was a huge exodus preceding the holiday and many farewell parties were given in all three dining rooms.”