100th Anniversary of the Stairs

This past Sunday, a group of us went to the Castaways for Easter brunch and then over to the Oak Park Bar, next to the Oak Park Hotel, dating back to the Chain of Lakes Resort Mecca Days. The hotel was built around 1895 and the bar, which initially was a grocery, around the early 1900s.

The current owner, has a photograph book of many old pictures of the place which we enjoyed looking at until Sue commandeered it. I'll have to go back and look more carefully at it.

Since the hotel is higher than the bar, it became apparent that they were going to need stairs to connect the two. Tom showed us an old picture of the stairs that were built and said that their 100th anniversary was coming up in a week.

He knows that because someone was nice enough to write the date April 11, 1910, in the cement.

We walked out and looked at the stairs and the picture and they haven't changed a bit in all that time. We tried to get Tom to contact the local paper and have some sort of a party (we'll use any reason to have an excuse to have a party), but don't think he will.

However, if the weather is nice, I plan to go there and have a brew out on them in honor of the event.

This is the Oak Park Hotel on Pistakee Lake in McHenry County in Illinois.

A 100 years, That's a Long Time. --RoadDog