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Section 1 (A-E) |
Section 2 (F-J) |
Section 3 (K-O) |
Section 4 (P-T) |
Section 5 (U-Z) |
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Knitt's Hardware Hank |
Lake Aire |
Laumer's Liquor
Store |
Lee's Mobile Station |
Leisure Lodge |
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Legends Bar & Grill |
Lester's |
Lindstrom's Ice Cream |
Lollicoogan |
Lost Lake Resort |
| Lynn-Ann's Campground |
Ma Johnson's |
McGregor's Resort |
McGregor School |
Mr. C's |
| Mobile Home Beat Town |
Molgaard's Indian Lodge |
Murmuring Waters |
Muskie Inn |
Muskie Queen |
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New Twilight Bar &
Grill |
Normandy Court Resort |
Northwoods Rest Motel |
OK Resort |
Osier's Resort |
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Knitt's Hardware Hank
William and Shirley
Knitt purchased
Hansen's Hardware in the St. Germain Mall in the
early-1970's. This store was located where the current
beauty salon is and was a branch of Hansen's Hardware in
Minoqua. In time the Knitt's built the current building
by the First National Bank. William passed away suddenly
and his son Kent
Knitt took
over the management and operations of the store.
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Lake Aire Tavern/Supper
Club
The Lake-Aire Tavern was owned and operated by
Edward Polinski.
His brother,
William,
had previously built and operated Northwoods Rest Motel
next to it. The Lake-Aire Tavern burned down and Edward
rebuilt it as a supper club and kept the Lake-Aire name.
More information on this site can be found under
Max's Tavern.
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Laumer's Liquor Store
This was the
fourth building in the mall/junction area. It was
originally built as a restaurant by Walter
Anderson.
Years later, George
Laumer purchased
and remodeled it and operated a liquor store. After
George sold it, there were various businesses here
including a gift shop, a video store, and a gift shop
again. The building was removed to make way for the new Camp's
Super Valu building.
More information on this site can be found under Anderson's
Restaurant.
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Lee's Mobile Station
Lee Bucholtz built and operated this Mobile gas station
and garage. It now houses St. Germain Auto & Trailer.
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Leisure Lodge
This resort and supper club was was owned and operated
by
Glenn Schmolze.
He operated it for many years, then sold it to an
unknown person. The supper club burned down and
the new owners did not rebuild it. More information
regarding this site can be found under OK
Resort.
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Legends Bar & Grill
Kevin remodeled and expanded this small tavern in the
mall after he purchased it from Keith
Worthen. More information on this site can be
found under Mr.
C's
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Lester's
Johnny Lester bought
this tavern from John
Qualy and
ran it for many years. He then sold it to Ray
Weber. More information on this site can be found
underQualy's
Tavern.
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Lindstrom's Ice Cream
Parlor and Laudromat
Carl Lindstrom built
and operated this Laundromat and Ice Cream Shop for many
years. He eventually sold it and it has changed hands
several times since then. It still remains a
Laundromat, but the ice cream section was long ago
removed to expand the Laundromat.
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Lollicoogan
John Moriarity purchased
this tavern and operated it for decades. It was
previously known as Rosie's, but no one remembers a
thing about Rosie. John retired and sold it to Roger
Weber,
who changed the name to "Chances R." After a few years,
it was sold again, but the name remained the same. It
is located on the Jct of Hwy 155 and Cty C, behind Weber's
Wildlife.
It is currently owned and operated by Danny Thomas.
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Lost Lake Resort
This resort
was built on Lost Lake in 1900 by Michael
Froelich. He
operated it until 1913, when he sold it to his
son-in-law, Clarence
Shannon.
Shannon later sold it to Ed
Gabe, who changed the name
to Ed Gabe's Lost Lake Resort. Ed had a separate
building for the bar because he did want children coming
into the supper club exposed to it. Ed sold it to Robert
"Snuffy" Smith, his
brother-in-law. The resort was finally condoed and the
supper club, which by now included a bar, was sold to Glenn
Giese. The supper club burned down a couple of
years later. The first photo is an early photograph of
the original main lodge. The second photo is of the main
lodge veranda. The third photo is one of the early
cabins.
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Lynn-Ann's Campground
This campground on Big St. Germain Lake was built and
operated by Lynn and his wife Ann
(last name unknown) They operated it
for many years, then sold it to David
Bastion. David also operated it for many years
and finally turned the operations and management over to
his daughter, Heather, and her husband.
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"Ma" Johnson's
"Ma" Johnson built
this tavern in the 1930's and operated it for many years
then sold it to George and Bernece
Gensler.
They changed the name to Club 155, and operated it for
at least forty years. After that, it went through many
owners.
This photograph is when the Gensler's owned it, but the
building is the same as when "Ma" Johnson owned it.
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McGregor's Resort
Jack and Judy
McGregor purchased
this resort located on the southwest shore of Big St.
Germain Lake. They operated this resort for many years,
then turned management over to their son, James.
In time, the resort was closed.
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McGregor School
This 1-8 grade school was built sometime after Juve and Jackson Schools.
No one seems to remember exactly where it stood, and we
have two locations depending on who you talk to. One is
that it was on Cty C between Hwy 70 and McGregor's Resort,
somewhere across from the golf course. Others say it was
farther down on Hwy C, somewhere around Jack Pine Lodge.
The Jack
Pine Lodge area
is more likely because when Jack and Judy
McGregor purchased McGregors
Resort, the McGregor School would have been long
gone.
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Mr. C's
This
originally held the First National Bank before they
built their own building. After the First National Bank
moved out, the interior of the building was remodeled as
a tavern and opened as "Mr. C's." This was operated by Fritz
Crall. Fritz
eventually sold the tavern to Tom
Giloman and
the name was changed to "The Cat's Meow." The tavern
was sold two more times (with two more name changes),
then purchased by David
Worthen,
who operated it several years. David sold it to his
brother, Keith,
who operated it as "Chico's." It was then sold in
January 2003 and the name changed to "Legends." This
photo was taken shortly after Keith Worthen purchased
it.
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Mobile Home That Beat The
Town
Carl Yanke purchased
and moved this mobile home on the lot next to his
tavern, Carl's Dutch Door (The
Boxer), on Paton Road in spite of a town
ordinance against it. When the Town told him he was not
allowed to do this, he took it to court and won. The
mobile home is still there and older residents still
chuckle a little when they see it.
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Molgaard's Indian Lodge
Joe
Molgaard owned
this supper club for decades and it became nationally
known. There was a complete meat cutting department in
the basement and the meat served was hand cut.
Molgaard's specialty was a hand-cut steak called the
"Butter Ball." There were not many that could be cut,
so it was always in short supply. Lucky was the steak
lover, who managed to order it and it was in supply. More
information on this site can be found under Harvey's
Tavern.
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Murmuring Waters
This resort
and tavern was built on Lost Lake by John
Eliason, who came to this
area in 1898. The actual construction was by Joe
Zellner, who also
built the
Peacock and Molgaard's.
John was thinking of what name to give it. Carl
Eliason, who was a
youngster then, suggested Murmuring Waters from the
poem, Hiawatha. John agreed with the name and the
resort remained in the Eliason family until the
mid-1980's when the cottages were sold and the tavern
was sold to
Bob Arnold.
Bob ran the bar for several years, then sold it to Patti
(last name unknown), who changed the name to Patti's
Murmuring Waters.
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Muskie Inn
The
Muskie Inn is another of the early resorts of our area.
It was one of the first three resorts on Big St. Germain
Lake, which were Muskie Inn, Jack
Pine Lodge, and Hunter's
Log Cabin Resort.
The resort went through several owners. The earliest we
know was Joe and Leslie Seybold. They sold it to Lee and Bonnie
Weslaski in
1975. Lee and Bonnie turned it into a very popular,
highly successful resort and supper club. They sold it
(person unknown) and, during this period, Lee passed
away. Eventually the establishment came back to Bonnie
and the supper club and bar were never reopened to the
public. The cottages have been condoed out and are
managed separately as Deer Run Condominiums.
The first photograph shows the entrance to the supper
club. The second photo is the shows the lodge facing
the lake. The third photo shows some of the cottages.
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Muskie Queen
This was
originally a small drive-in serving hamburgers, hot
dogs, soft ice cream, etc. It was built sometime in the
1960's by a man who taught school in Lac du Flambeau. He
only operated during the summer months. It was
eventually sold to Charles
Vogel and
operated by his son, Steve
Vogel. Vogel kept the name
the same and expanded it into a restaurant with interior
seating. Steve operated it for a few years, then sold
it (unknown person) and the name was changed to Halos.
Halos was sold in 2003 and the new owner (Unknown)
changed the name to "Chatter House". The restaurant was
vacant for a period after this new owner left. It was
then finally sold and renamed DJ's. The
photo here was taken during that "vacant" time before
DJ's purchased it.
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New Twilight Bar & Grill
This was originally called the
Twilight Tavern and Dan (Last name unknown) changed the
name when he purchased and remodeled it. More
information on this tavern is found under
Twilight Tavern.
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Normandy Court
This was a large and popular resort
that encompassed shoreline on both Lake Content and Big
St. Germain lake. It was built and operated by
John Qualy. Qualy eventually sold it and
it went through a few owners until it was PSL'd.
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Northwoods Rest Motel
This motel was built and operated
by William Polinski. His brother, Edward, had purchased
Max's Tavern and William built the motel next to it. the
motel has gone through several owners since then, but
has retained its original name.
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OK Resort
This resort was later more commonly known as Leisure
Lodge. It was one of only about a dozen businesses or
individuals listed in a 1940's telephone book which
still exists. The resort was eventually sold to a man
whose last name was Weise. He built the two stone
pillars on either side of the entrance to the resort on
Half-Mile Road. He had a Y on one post and a Z on the
other which represented the pronunciation of his last
name. He operated this resort for many years, then sold
it to Glenn
Schmolze in
the early 1970's. Glenn sold it in the 1990's to an
unknown person. The supper club burned down and the
cabins were PSL'd.
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Osier's Resort
This resort on the north shore of
Big St. Germain lake was operated for many years by
Joe Osier.
More information can be found under
Hunter's Log Cabin Resort.
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