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ing era when wealthy
ers hope to see preserved.
Denise Lites,
Suzy Farbman
families built their spa-
"I love the old-fashioned
and Shelley
cious "summer cot-
Golden have
charm of Charlevoix,"
shared many
tages," brought their
says photojournalist Lin-
summers
servants and steamer
together.
da Solomon of Birming-
trunks, and stayed
ham. She often visits
through the season.
with husband Barry
Gilbert
and her late husband,
when he enters regional golf tour-
naments. "It takes you back to Julius, were one of the first De-
a slower pace, and I love the ca- troit summer residents to move
sual informality. I know I can go to Charlevoix year round in
1962. He was one of the owners
everywhere in my jeans."
The relaxed ambiance along of the Lodge, a motel designed
with the lakes and cooling by famed Charlevoix builder Earl
breezes have long drawn people Young, whose "mushroom hous-
to Charlevoix, but it has not al- es" are becoming more acclaimed
ways been so informal. In the as years pass.
The golden period of
`20s, the seven-story Beach Ho-
tel, overlooking Lake Michigan, Charlevoix, according to Gilbert's
and the Colonial Club, also book, was between World War
known as Koch's, were elegant 1 and the Great Depression when
establishments where guests "the pre-jet set flocked north dur-
ing July and August from sizzling
dressed formally on weekends.
From 1920, when Koch's Chicago, humid Detroit, torrid
opened, until 1947 when its il- St. Louis and sweltering new Or-
legal gambling operation was leans, their monogrammed
closed down, it was a popular steamer trunks loaded with er-
dining spot among Midwestern mine wraps for the ladies to wear
"Merchant Princes," according on cool Michigan evenings and
to Charlevoix historian and au- for the men, white silk tuxedos
and black patent leather dancing
thor Edith Gilbert.
In her book Summer Resort shoes."
Long before the affluent Roar-
Life: Tango, Teas and All!
($16.95, available at the Bridge ing '20s, however, more modest
Street Book Shop in Charlevoix), groups had chosen Charlevoix as
she recounts a pre-air-condition-
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