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Brooks Store at Chazy Lake after a bit of snow in the early 1950’s. 
Thanks to Joyce LaVigne for the picture.

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  • cleadslinger32
    March 9, 2008 at 11:32 am

    I remember the tunnel leading into Benny Brook’s store quite vividly. I was about eight or nine years old so that would make the blizzard around 1940-41. Dad and I drove to Dannemora after the storm settled down and the roads were all cleared using the big, red Wolters Snowfighter. Benny and Dad had gone to school together in Chazy Lake, and they remained good friends. Benny took a picture of me on top of a huge drift. He had it enlarged and displayed it inside his store. I remember that I was wearing a red tasseled “toque”. That spot for about a quarter of a mile was always the worst during a blizzard. A southeast storm would come roaring up the pass between Lyon Mountain and Johnson Mountain. This was right in line with Whiteface and Lake Placid. The Saranac Valley was broad and low so that the wind could generate there while building up its force and then would form a Venturi funnel between the mountains and onto the lake. Dad said that before they had good snow plows that people used an ice road to by-pass that area. One end exited near Fournier’s farm. Also he recalled when they used horse-propelled vee-shaped plows using logs to flatten the road for wagons and sleighs.


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