Interlaken Avenue around 1905.



Lucern Avenue, which parallels Interlaken Avenue on the 1899 map below, still exists. Alpenrose Avenue continues in altered form, as the Alpenrose Plaza. All the other named streets are long gone. Most of the area north of Lucerne Avenue is now part of the 27-acre Weirs Community Park.



Here is the current-day configuration of the same area. Clearly, the development did not work out as planned for the 1899 investors. Notice that part of Interlaken Avenue still seems to exist on the modern-day map.



This circa 1959 aerial photo of Weirs Beach shows that at least part of Interlaken Avenue, visible in the bottom right corner of the photo, was still in existence at that time. Today, no remnant remains of Interlaken Avenue, with the part visible in this aerial replaced by a miniature golf course.



In the 1920's a girl's camp, Camp Acadia, was active on the part of the Interlaken property now planned for a park. The misspelling of the name of the camp in the photo below as "Arcadia" is fitting. With its many amusement arcades, Weirs Beach could be dubbed "Arcadia"! Click here for more info on Camp Acadia.



Here is a view of Weirs Beach from Interlaken Park circa 1900.



Here is a view of Weirs Beach from Interlaken Park circa 1920.



Here is a view of Weirs Beach from Interlaken Park circa 1930. Note the absence of the New Hotel Weirs.



Here is a view of Weirs Beach from Interlaken Park circa 1945. Note the absence of the Weirs Cafe. Also the old Mount has been replaced by the new Mount.



The Interlaken boulder in 1899, from the "Illustrated Laconian".