The Pack Basket Restaurant - Part 1

I ate breakfast up at the farm in what most people would consider the middle of the night. I waited for daylight before leaving for home, and then headed on my way. I arrived in Gabriels (Brighton) just as I was hungry for lunch, but far before most people began crowding into the popular Pack Basket Restaurant:


The main part of their sign ha blown down in the recent high winds, but they were open for business:

This is an old fashioned country restaurant in all the best of ways, and I'd wanted to get in here and take pictures some time when it wasn't filled with customers. This was my chance:

While they prepared my sandwich, I walked around snapping pictures of the Adirondack memorabilia and crafts adorning every wall. This old phone had been converted to a modern phone and they used it when a mobile phone was unavailable:

There was an Adirondack table with a stuffed pheasant and coyote tails on top:

Mounted fish, creels, lures and squirrel skinner. Notice that most things had price tags and were for sale. It wasn't just a museum, though it could have served that purpose also:

An old bank, old bottles:

Old lanterns and a flatiron:

Snow shoes, creel, leg traps, decoys and a Boy Scout Reservation sign:

A giant bear trap:

Frog stabber, mounted fish, pack baskets, snow shoes:

Antlers, fish net, map, whippletree, pack basket. The restaurant was filled with such items and I was trying to get photos of as much as I could. I'll present Part 2 tomorrow: