03-22-2010
( Reply#: 5165 ) |
duane |
The movie is called My Summer Story and it is a kind of sequel to ACS. It even starts out with the closing scene of ACS. There is a hilarious scene with fishing on Cedar Lake, where one boat breaks away from the pack, gets a nibble and all the other boats come over and cluster around it. This happens several times.
I, too, have memories of fishing on Cedar Lake in my youth...great memories. |
03-22-2010
( Reply#: 5166 ) |
Bill Bucko |
Hurry and buy "My Summer Story"! Last I checked, used copies were available very inexpensively at Amazon.com. True, I don't like seeing the ugly Bumpuses in person (complete with tobacco juice) --heck, we don't even get a good glimpse of Cassie home from the Reformatory--and the kid with the top looks weird and transgendered. (Am I allowed to say that?) Maybe the movie's only half as good as "A Christmas Story"--but that's still good! I find Shep's narration of the last sentence--"It was the greatest summer of my life"--deeply moving, better than anything in "A Christmas Story."
Bill
Warren G. Harding Class of '63 |
03-22-2010
( Reply#: 5167 ) |
Tom J |
I remember ice fishing with my dad at Cedar Lake. We pulled a sled of some kind out on the ice. It was more or less a box on skids, but you could sit on the top with a Coleman lantern burning under your butt and stay pretty warm.
We used maggots or meal worms for bait, and we used real cheap little plastic rods and reels. The bobbers were really small little things.
I remember how water would freeze on our lines.
The bluegill would bite like crazy sometimes.
Tom |
03-24-2010
( Reply#: 5168 ) |
MrRazz |
I will definitely have to get a copy of "My Summer Story". Tom, your experience ice fishing on Cedar Lake sounds "cool", and the bluegill catches got my lips smacking. Have had very little experience ice fishing except once for trout. When I think of ice fishing, "Grumpy Old Men" comes to mind...all the comforts of home while you fish..loved that movie. Any of you Hessvillites remember the man who lived near Harding School that fished on Lake Michigan and sold his fresh catches? Smoked his own fish, and they were so good. |
05-14-2010
( Reply#: 5558 ) |
tom w |
Tom;
When I was younger, one of my hiding places was a place called Toomeys Resort. Down by the beach on the deserted side of the property was an old wooden building. They told me that many years ago, They used the building to store ice. Seems like this was quite a going business way back then. Tom W |
05-14-2010
( Reply#: 5559 ) |
BobK |
I can remember us having an icebox back in the mid 40's. If you wanted it cold that was the only option before refrigeration and before it was affordable to the general public. You also had to have electricity. We were always in the city so we had it but you didn't have to go very far to reach the end of the service. Natural gas was the same way even in the city.
Bob
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11-21-2010
( Reply#: 6251 ) |
briz57 |
Cedar Lake...It was the great excape for city dwellers back in the 40's....I had realitives that lived in Chicago, and had a summer cottage in Cedar Lake...We would make the 30 min drive down US 41 and then take a couple back roads to Cedar Lake to spend a day with them...And this was in the 60's....At night I remember music comming from Midway Ballroom and echoing across the lake in the evenings...
Then as I grew older, The Motorcycle Ice Racing in the winter was a blast...When I was married I moved to Cedar Lake for a few years, Housing was pertty inexpensive, and it was still kind of close to the jobs in the harbor area....I was there the night the Midway Ballroom went up in flames...Think it was in 87' or so....it was a
massive fire with flames from the wooden structure reaching upwards of 100' in the air....Here's a link to some photos I found online.... http://www.flickr.com/photos/pezphotography/3486667191/in/photostream
BRIZ 1957 |
