On a busy Sunday we would empty our gas tanks with water skiers and such. Nowadays you maybe see one or two water skiers, nothing like it used to be. When we were really going strong, my wife, my mother and Viola McNulty averaged 500 meals a week.

I used to look forward to the turnover of guests every week or so and we really looked forward to old friends coming back. Our business in those days was 95% American and we would be booked for the next year all the time. We had the ten old cottages which we rebuilt but we didn't get into trailers until later. During the war many of the people had lived in tents in England and other places and they continued to do so on vacation. Three airforce people came to Bayview one summer with tents and that's how we got into the camping business. When we ended we had 185 trailers.

In the agreement of sale I had to wait five years before I was able to start the business known as White Lake Marina.

I think back about all the good years at Bayview. I used to drive through the park on my rounds at 11 o'clock at night. Of course everybody used to curse me. I'd say hi to everybody and remind them to keep the noise down so people could sleep. It wasn't that everyone had to go to bed!