In approximately
1923, at age 47, Edwin Eggert gave up his job as a Superintendent for the
telephone company in Chicago and bought an existing resort on Spider Lake near
Hayward, Wisconsin.
His wife, Billie, made
this album, writing like a brochure, showing the best of their resort. The words you are reading are the words she wrote.
On the way in
Good all weather road
The old bridge
Near home
Virgin timber
Partial view of grounds
from the lake
Big Spider Lake directly in
front of Eggerts
Diving Pier
Five Separate Lakes
65 Miles of Shoreline
Twilight
I took this picture of Twilight from the Resort in 1987.
Storm is brewing
No prettier lakes in
Wisconsin
Heavily timbered shoreline
Note: Not Anymore
Our cabins are
comfortable. I want to tell you, I
stayed in those cabins in 1987 and 1991 and believe they were just about
exactly the same as they had been in 1923, except kitchens, toilets and showers
had been added to them over time, but the beds, chairs and dressers looked like
they may have been the same.
Screened porches. These screened porches were later converted
to kitchens.
Heator stoves. That’s Ed with one of their dogs.
Good beds
Plenty of shade, because
there was no air conditioning in 1923, but you were in Wisconsin, don’t need it
often.
Kindly pets. Billie Eggert was childless.
Among the birches
We house you in the cabins
We’re off
To the fishing grounds
The catch. Ed is on the left.
Big string
No Better Fishing in Sawyer
County. That’s Ed.
Small mouth bass
Big fish
Uninhabited (not anymore)
Uninhabited Island
Except by fish
Come by plane
No finer beaches
Bathing Beauty
Two Bathing Beauties
Chippewa Indian Reservation
Nearby
Chippewa children
Chippewa with Tourists
One of our friends
Deer are plentiful
Deer in snow
Two stags hanging
Hunter with rifle
Deer on road
Yes, we have a few saddle
horses
Indian ponies
From Flora Jean
More ponies
Winter is Here
