Every Monday we share a vintage image on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invite our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia. Last week we featured the postcard above.
Have you ever seen this old postcard before? Do you recognize the location? If not, the title tells us that it’s: “The Crater Club, Essex-on-Lake Champlain.” Have you ever been there? What can you tell us about it? Does it bring up any memories for you?
Here’s what the community has already had to say:
Dudley Underdahl Duel: This is where I grew up!
Helen Jennings: The Crater Club clubhouse
Katie Withey: I have this postcard.
When do you think the photo was taken? We don’t know exactly, but the back of the postcard is stamped July 1907, which dates the creation of that photo and postcard to that year or earlier.
The front of the postcard tells us the who: it was published by W.H. Cruikshank whose name has come up before regarding the postcard with the photo of the old stump bridge at Whallons Bay. Cruikshank must have published several Essex postcards. Let’s see if his name will come up in the future on another vintage trivia challenge…
The writing on the front of the postcard appears to read: “This is the club. What do you think of it? Love it all. Harriet.”
Well, what do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below!
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eveticknor says
I have been there many times. My mother, Ethel Bernard, used to tell me of dances she went to there as a young lady.
Eve
JACK HALPIN says
Please note the postmark is ‘Crater Club Post Office’. The Post Office was located under the porch on the right side of the Clubhouse. The Clubhouse was built in 1898 by John Bryd Burnham. The Post Office was operating in the 1930’s and I believe closed during World War II. Jack Halpin