Lake Association Directories  

I have no real Idea as to when they actually started to be published - but the first one I found was 1953 and that was the the Marshall County Historical Society - they had scattered issues from 1953 forward to 1990 when I first started working on this.

I do not know the practice if each business in town got one - if this was done the ones I should of been able to have had were 1963-1971 when dad was in the station as manager but if he did have them they all burnt when the Lakeshore Garage (700 Lake Shore) burned in Jan. 1972; but I prpobably would not of gotten them anyway. I do not remember seeing any older issues in the building - maybe they had been tossed in the trash at the arrival of a new one not realizing the historical value they contained for future yeara.

So by decades here are a listing of what should be directories out there somewhere:

1953, 1854, 1955, 1956, 1957, ~~ 1958, ~~ 1959

1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969

1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979

1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, ~~ 1985, ~~ 1986 , ~~ 1987 , ~~ 1988, 1989

1990, 1991, ~~ 1992, 1993, ~~ 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005>, ~~ 2006 , ~~ 2007, ~~ 2008, 2009

2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,

2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025


I hope to scan as many as I can find - put on cd and by decades if possible I do not know how many years will fit onto a disk - but can try for a decade; I am almost postive the 2000-09 decade will not fit on one disk by what I have each year it is growing in content.

For now all that will be put up on the site is the Vintage ads of Culver from these Lake directories:

What a wonderful source of business history of Culver even tho maybe not every business advertised in the lake directory!