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You Know What …? (local history), by Howard Riley

Local drivers in 140-mile outboard race

I believe this story will blow you away; especially if you are one who has every spent any time driving a boat with an outboard motor. In the 1940’s, all of us high school kids drove a lot of outboards with motors of various horsepower owned by parents and usually tied to the docks at the ...

World’s Fair opening

Page One — “New York, May 1 (AP) — New York’s $160,000,000 World’s Fair which took three years to build, is here at last. “The greatest international exposition in history — two square miles of Long Island embracing 300 gleaming buildings, 50 miles of roads and 35,000 employees ...

Historic Saranac Lake landmark razed

There was a big story on Page 1 of the Enterprise dated Feb. 1, 1955, about the historic Spalding Block being torn down, located where the Verizon Communications store is today at the corner of Main and River streets. And “Believe it or Else,” all this information surfaced from the ...

It’s obvious that I love local history

Yes, yes, history it is — even when I am forced by my own lackadaisical approach to any journalistic rules of order, I am backing into a story because I always have trouble getting down the lead paragraph. So here I am, and don’t stop me if you have heard this before, I want to hear it ...

Page one — bad news — 1939

This 84-year-old Adirondack Daily Enterprise was loaded with bad news, including a story with the following headline: “Train Wreck Kills 20, 114 Injured.” “Reno, Nev., Aug. 14 (AP) — The fiendishly plotted wrecking of a $2,000,000 streamliner train left at least 20 people dead and ...

Lyeth family and some Lake Clear history

Today is a history in photos, thanks to my friends Chantal and Howard Lyeth and Bob Callaghan, the Lake Clear historian. I was in school with Bob Lyeth, grandson of George, who was the photographer of last week’s hunting photo. Howard and Chantal are friends of my son Keegan. Bob was a ...