Minor Spectacles

Living at the thin edge of the middle class, my family did a lot of day-trip vacations. Longer excursions required a relative with sleeping bag space on the receiving end. TAUNY's Very Special Places Exhibit, featured below, brought so much back. I went to Santa's Workshop in 1958, at age five. (You can do the math.) I have driven by or been to most of the others on family trips around the North Country. Some of my favorites no longer exist: Potsdam's Dilly Wagon, a chuck wagon-shaped diner featuring "Dilly Sauce" (also available in jars), or "1000 Animals" at the Sterling Game Farm in Lake Placid (which could also have been called 1000 Aromas). Are we there yet?