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This charming cafe at the Sargent Hotel , at Wawasee Lake, Indiana has a spiffy new Victrola XVI in the corner to entertain the diners. Under a lens I can see that it's the model with the crank near the front. In view of the outfit and hairdo of the waitress/telephone girl in the back office I would date this postcard as 1913.
Google tells me that Wawasee Lake was...and is...a summer vacation area for residents of Chicago and Indianapolis.

Jim

I have friends that live on that lake. It's really called Lake Wawasee. Syracuse, IN. Funny the postcard names it Wawasee Lake.

Apologies for carrying this post O/T, but I've often wondered why "Lake" sometimes precedes, sometimes follows, the name. In some cases, word order seems to make no difference (to my ear, "Lake Oneida" sounds just as "correct" as "Oneida Lake"), but in other cases one or the other, but not both, sounds right (or wrong): Lake Ontario, but not Ontario Lake; Tupper Lake, but not Lake Tupper, Saranac Lake but not Lake Saranac, etc., etc. Any ideas?

It has to do with size of lake. Larger lakes have lake before and smaller lakes have "lake" after. The deciding point is unknown to me. Lake Wawasee is the largest natural lake in Indiana.

That's real cute. Ye Olde Postcard and all.

Thanks, I learned something today about lakes and the photo is very interesting. Jerry

I'll take Veronica Lake!

That XIV was made in 1912 or 1913 and is the first non L Door model. Note the full width upper doors. After this model, Victor went to the narrower horn opening.

The lighting is also interesting. It looks like the wiring is on the surface of the ceiling. Maybe they have their own generating plant.

Jim

JohnM wrote:I'll take Veronica Lake!

I'll take Lake Veronica (her hair falls on the other side of her face).

Andersun wrote:It has to do with size of lake. Larger lakes have lake before and smaller lakes have "lake" after. The deciding point is unknown to me. Lake Wawasee is the largest natural lake in Indiana.

Somebody must have missed the memo out in California... growing up our family always vacationed during the summer at a little spit of a lake named Lake Gregory; small enough to swim across even as an adolescent. Then again, California has never really followed the rules with many things!