Aleka’s Restaurant owner and operator Peter Kritziotis wiping down a table in the outdoor dining area. The restaurant shut down after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020 and reopened for streetside dining in June. Plattsburgh, NY. June 4, 2020. Courtesy of Peter Kritziotis. To hear about Aleka’s reopening, check out Kritziotis’ full […]
Employees outside the Fillin’ Station, The Woodruff Motel’s restaurant. August 1985. Keene, NY. Photo courtesy of Sue Abbott Jones.
The Bill Gates Diner, located on Main Street in Bolton Landing. It was run by the Gates family between 1948 and 1981. Photo taken in the 1950s/1960s. Bolton Landing, NY. Photo courtesy of Bill Gates. Bill Gates (Junior) worked at the diner starting at the age of 14, and put himself through college working at the diner […]
Colleen Smith behind the bar in the Adirondack Hotel tap room. Long Lake. Spring of 2019. Photo taken by Andy Flynn. Listen and read Colleen’s full story here.
Farmhouse Pantry opened in Saranac on Labor Day of 2015. It’s part farm-to-table, organic café; part coffee shop; and part fresh-off-the-farm grocery store. The folks behind it are Josh and Sarah Vaillancourt, a couple in their thirties who moved to Saranac to start a small farm, and ended up with the farm and a restaurant. […]
Bartender Francis Desotelle tending bar a the Elks Lodge, BPOE #621. 1950s. Plattsburgh, NY. Photo courtesy of Jane & Gary Desotelle.
Four workers behind the bar of the Elks Lodge, BPOE #621. In the middle is Francis Desotelle, and on the right is Francis Kennedy, who later became the head of the Elks Club. 1950s. Plattsburgh, NY. Photo courtesy of Jane & Gary Desotelle.
A waiter at a restaurant in Plattsburgh, either the Elks Lodge or the Witherell Hotel. Late 1940s. Plattsburgh, NY. Photo courtesy of Jane & Gary Desotelle.
A worker in the bathroom of the Elks Lodge in Plattsburgh, cleaning what looks like a urinal. 1948. Plattsburgh, NY. Photo courtesy of Jane & Gary Desotelle.
Two bartenders at the Elks Lodge in Plattsburgh, BPOE #621. The man in the foreground is taking an order from a customer. February 1, 1948. Plattsburgh, NY. Photo courtesy of Jane & Gary Desotelle. When he was in high school, Gary Desotelle worked in the restaurant of the Elks Lodge in Plattsburgh. Listen to his […]
