We shared this vintage postcard on the Essex on Lake Champlain Facebook page and invited our viewers to play some Vintage Essex Trivia with this beautiful rendition of a historical Essex building. Can anyone make out the author’s name in the lower right corner? Or does anyone know the author from the style or from some other way?
Do you recognize the Essex building in the sketch? Once upon a time it was probably in use as a shipping or storage building on the wharf. Today it’s the Old Dock House Restaurant! However, the drawing captures it in a previous incarnation. It’s titled, “The Old Dock Coffee House in Essex, New York.” Does anyone know when the building was occupied by this business?
See what the community had to say below:
Jane Hurlburt Scaia: Where was this house? OMG nice
Christine Herrmann: I cannot make out the name of the artist, but I do remember when The Old Dock Coffee House looked like it does on this post card. And yes, it has become today’s Old Dock Restaurant.
Steve Mckenna: Very cool.
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Jack Halpin says
I worked at the Old Dock Coffee House in the summer of either 1935 or 1936. The operator was Ms. May. Her son Bill May was also an employee. I believe it was Open for Lunch only.
virtualDavis (@virtualDavis) says
Good memory. Good longevity! 🙂 Fun to think of the Old Dock as a lunch-only cafe almost eighty years ago. I wonder what has come of Ms. May and Bill. Do you recollect the mother’s first name? Would help us poke around for more information…
JACK HALPIN says
I doo not remembefr Ms. May’s first name but I believe she had a female partner. I was fired after the first day or so. I poured a guest a beer and forgot to remove my fingers from the inside of the rim of the glass.