The Secret Garden
Sunday, April 20th, 2008My boss says it is my parent’s fault for raising me in The Secret Garden.
As a kid there were two or three abandoned gardens I regularly explored, but this was my favorite.
- The first ski school in America would meet around here.
- Allegedly, modern snow making was invented in that red house.
- I have a postcard I bought on ebay that shows what this looked like when it was nice.
- John D. Rockefeller, the ugliest of the Rockefellers was fond of telling Peckett’s busboys when tipping them that he made his money penny by penny.
- Bette Davis met her gayest husband here.
- The saying “He’s a real Arthur Farnsworth,” comes from the above statement.
- The neighborhood rumor was that the hotel closed not because of economics but segregation.