Son of Mortimer & Ellen J (Pomeroy) Bartlett.
Name: Hugh D. Bartlett
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1877
Birthplace: Tompkins, Jackson, Michigan
Father's Name: Mortimer E. Bartlett
Mother's Name: Etire J. Bartlett
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01876-5
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
Source Film Number: 2320452
Collection: Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995
1870 MI Census Jackson Co Tompkins
Mortimer Bartlett 30
Ellen Bartlett 30
Chester Bartlett 9
Charles Bartlett 7
Fred Bartlett 3
Hugh Bartlett 2
May Armstrong 13
1900 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Mortimer E Bartlett 50
Ellen J Bartlett 50
Hugh Bartlett 22
Pheobe Ann Bartlett 71
Fred R Bartlett 23
Fannie Bartlett 23
Larue Bartlett 4
Fredrick Parker 22
Harvey Raymond 24
Groom's Name: Hugh Dale Bartlett
Groom's Birth Date: 1878
Groom's Birthplace: Tompkins
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Maud M. Perrine
Bride's Birth Date: 1874
Bride's Birthplace: Jackson
Bride's Age: 26
Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1900
Marriage Place: Jackson, Jackson Co., Michigan
Groom's Father's Name: Mortimar Bartlett
Groom's Mother's Name: Pomeroy
Bride's Father's Name: Hulbert Perrine
Bride's Mother's Name: Reed
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M74375-9
System Origin: Michigan-EASy
Source Film Number: 941639
Reference Number: 354
1910 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Hugh Bartlett 32
Maud M Bartlett 34
1920 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Jas H Cochrane 67
Bertha Cochrane 55
Hulbert Cochrane 18
Irene Cochrane 20
Vera Cochrane 0[6/12]
Hugh D Bartlett 42 brother
Maude Bartlett 45
Jackson Cit Pat 9 July 2011 "A Peek Through Time":
Nothing beats a glorious summer day at the lake, followed by a night of good friends, good music and good dancing.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, all of that was ripe for the picking on the shores of Pleasant Lake at Bartlett's Resort.
Even though it was torn down five years ago, generations of people still swear they can hear the laughter of kids heading down the big slide into the water or the melodies of the big-name Big Band and rock 'n' roll groups that played there.
"There was always excitement at Bartlett's," said Kit Navarre, 64, of Elgin, Ill., a 1965 Jackson High School graduate and admitted regular. "People were dressed up and had their aftershave on and were ready for dancing. It was fast music and fast cars — good stuff."
Navarre talks about the early '60s when rock 'n' roll groups like Bill Haley & His Comets were on the bill at Bartlett's. But his reminiscing fits easily with a generation before that swayed there in the '40s to the tunes of the likes of The Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Bartlett's beginnings on the northeast shore of Pleasant Lake in Henrietta Township go back to 1916 when Hugh Bartlett was given the land on which it sat by his father, Mortimer, a Jackson merchant.
Hugh Bartlett was born in Tompkins Center and had worked for 10 years in the family's downtown Jackson confectionery store, first at 404 N. Milwaukee St. and then at 1137 E. Main St., before building his two-level dance hall.
It was destroyed by a lightning strike and fire in 1927, but Bartlett rebuilt a year later and added a miniature golf course, arcade games, swimming rafts and water slides.
For decades to come, the lower level of this building housed pinball machines, pool tables, a candy counter and a restaurant with an ice cream soda fountain.
The second floor was just for dancing. A large mirrored ball that hung in the middle of the ceiling cast star-like spots on the floor when the lights went down and a spotlight hit it.
The resort soared in popularity in the early 1940s when the Big Bands came to Bartlett's between gigs in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Count Basie, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, and Tommy Dorsey all played there.
"It was an amazing time," said Joan Hart, 87, of Pleasant Lake. "We went to dances three or four times a week. Bartlett's was a huge part of my life. I had such wonderful times there and wonderful memories."
Hugh Bartlett sold his resort to Chuck and Bobbie Walker of Rives Junction in 1952 and died a year later. But the Walkers kept the music and the dancing going through the '50s and '60s when rock ‘n' roll bands, including British Invasion groups like Herman's Hermits and Chad & Jeremy, played Bartlett's and drew teenagers in GTOs, Mustangs, Oldsmobile 442s Coronets and Corvettes.
"It was great to pull into the parking lot and hear the music and see all the fabulous cars — mostly convertibles with their tops down," Navarre said. "It was a great place to spend a summer evening. It was a great time to be a teenager."
In the early days of Motown, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops and The Temptations all played Bartlett's.
"They'd arrive in a school bus, and it was so early in the mix that The Supremes wore prom dresses for costumes," Navarre said.
The Walkers sold Bartlett's to Hershel "Gene" Davis in 1968, and on Sept. 24, 1970, it looked like the landmark was gone forever when it was again leveled by a fire that apparently started at a grill in Cobbler's Tavern on the ground floor.
Davis fought the flames with an extinguisher in the 3 minutes it took for the first firefighters to arrive. They all thought they had the blaze confined to the kitchen, but it had spread beneath a false ceiling that covered two-thirds of the ground floor and burst up through to the dance hall, where the heavily varnished hardwood floor fed the flames that were also whipped by high winds.
Firefighters from Henrietta, Blackman, Leoni and Rives townships and Leslie and Stockbridge fought the huge blaze to no avail.
"I remember watching it burn from my upstairs bedroom window," said Marianne Allen Ray, 66, of Cheboygan, who grew up across the lake from Bartlett's in a neighborhood called The Grove. "It was horrible. It was never really the same after that."
Davis rebuilt Bartlett's as a 320-seat restaurant and lounge in 1971 and ran it until 1976 when he sold it to George and Lucy Glinsky. Their son Tony took over in 1985 and ran Bartlett's until closing it for good in 2001. The building was torn down June 7, 2006, to make way for new homes to be built.
"The day they tore it down the traffic jam on the road in front was just like it was when I was a kid," said Pat Kenyon, 59, of Pleasant Lake, who grew up there, worked at Bartlett's soda fountain one summer and now serves as Henrietta Township's deputy clerk.
"It was a landmark that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people."
Name: Hugh D. Bartlett
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1877
Birthplace: Tompkins, Jackson, Michigan
Father's Name: Mortimer E. Bartlett
Mother's Name: Etire J. Bartlett
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01876-5
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
Source Film Number: 2320452
Collection: Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995
1870 MI Census Jackson Co Tompkins
Mortimer Bartlett 30
Ellen Bartlett 30
Chester Bartlett 9
Charles Bartlett 7
Fred Bartlett 3
Hugh Bartlett 2
May Armstrong 13
1900 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Mortimer E Bartlett 50
Ellen J Bartlett 50
Hugh Bartlett 22
Pheobe Ann Bartlett 71
Fred R Bartlett 23
Fannie Bartlett 23
Larue Bartlett 4
Fredrick Parker 22
Harvey Raymond 24
Groom's Name: Hugh Dale Bartlett
Groom's Birth Date: 1878
Groom's Birthplace: Tompkins
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Maud M. Perrine
Bride's Birth Date: 1874
Bride's Birthplace: Jackson
Bride's Age: 26
Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1900
Marriage Place: Jackson, Jackson Co., Michigan
Groom's Father's Name: Mortimar Bartlett
Groom's Mother's Name: Pomeroy
Bride's Father's Name: Hulbert Perrine
Bride's Mother's Name: Reed
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M74375-9
System Origin: Michigan-EASy
Source Film Number: 941639
Reference Number: 354
1910 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Hugh Bartlett 32
Maud M Bartlett 34
1920 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Jas H Cochrane 67
Bertha Cochrane 55
Hulbert Cochrane 18
Irene Cochrane 20
Vera Cochrane 0[6/12]
Hugh D Bartlett 42 brother
Maude Bartlett 45
Jackson Cit Pat 9 July 2011 "A Peek Through Time":
Nothing beats a glorious summer day at the lake, followed by a night of good friends, good music and good dancing.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, all of that was ripe for the picking on the shores of Pleasant Lake at Bartlett's Resort.
Even though it was torn down five years ago, generations of people still swear they can hear the laughter of kids heading down the big slide into the water or the melodies of the big-name Big Band and rock 'n' roll groups that played there.
"There was always excitement at Bartlett's," said Kit Navarre, 64, of Elgin, Ill., a 1965 Jackson High School graduate and admitted regular. "People were dressed up and had their aftershave on and were ready for dancing. It was fast music and fast cars — good stuff."
Navarre talks about the early '60s when rock 'n' roll groups like Bill Haley & His Comets were on the bill at Bartlett's. But his reminiscing fits easily with a generation before that swayed there in the '40s to the tunes of the likes of The Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Bartlett's beginnings on the northeast shore of Pleasant Lake in Henrietta Township go back to 1916 when Hugh Bartlett was given the land on which it sat by his father, Mortimer, a Jackson merchant.
Hugh Bartlett was born in Tompkins Center and had worked for 10 years in the family's downtown Jackson confectionery store, first at 404 N. Milwaukee St. and then at 1137 E. Main St., before building his two-level dance hall.
It was destroyed by a lightning strike and fire in 1927, but Bartlett rebuilt a year later and added a miniature golf course, arcade games, swimming rafts and water slides.
For decades to come, the lower level of this building housed pinball machines, pool tables, a candy counter and a restaurant with an ice cream soda fountain.
The second floor was just for dancing. A large mirrored ball that hung in the middle of the ceiling cast star-like spots on the floor when the lights went down and a spotlight hit it.
The resort soared in popularity in the early 1940s when the Big Bands came to Bartlett's between gigs in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Count Basie, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, and Tommy Dorsey all played there.
"It was an amazing time," said Joan Hart, 87, of Pleasant Lake. "We went to dances three or four times a week. Bartlett's was a huge part of my life. I had such wonderful times there and wonderful memories."
Hugh Bartlett sold his resort to Chuck and Bobbie Walker of Rives Junction in 1952 and died a year later. But the Walkers kept the music and the dancing going through the '50s and '60s when rock ‘n' roll bands, including British Invasion groups like Herman's Hermits and Chad & Jeremy, played Bartlett's and drew teenagers in GTOs, Mustangs, Oldsmobile 442s Coronets and Corvettes.
"It was great to pull into the parking lot and hear the music and see all the fabulous cars — mostly convertibles with their tops down," Navarre said. "It was a great place to spend a summer evening. It was a great time to be a teenager."
In the early days of Motown, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops and The Temptations all played Bartlett's.
"They'd arrive in a school bus, and it was so early in the mix that The Supremes wore prom dresses for costumes," Navarre said.
The Walkers sold Bartlett's to Hershel "Gene" Davis in 1968, and on Sept. 24, 1970, it looked like the landmark was gone forever when it was again leveled by a fire that apparently started at a grill in Cobbler's Tavern on the ground floor.
Davis fought the flames with an extinguisher in the 3 minutes it took for the first firefighters to arrive. They all thought they had the blaze confined to the kitchen, but it had spread beneath a false ceiling that covered two-thirds of the ground floor and burst up through to the dance hall, where the heavily varnished hardwood floor fed the flames that were also whipped by high winds.
Firefighters from Henrietta, Blackman, Leoni and Rives townships and Leslie and Stockbridge fought the huge blaze to no avail.
"I remember watching it burn from my upstairs bedroom window," said Marianne Allen Ray, 66, of Cheboygan, who grew up across the lake from Bartlett's in a neighborhood called The Grove. "It was horrible. It was never really the same after that."
Davis rebuilt Bartlett's as a 320-seat restaurant and lounge in 1971 and ran it until 1976 when he sold it to George and Lucy Glinsky. Their son Tony took over in 1985 and ran Bartlett's until closing it for good in 2001. The building was torn down June 7, 2006, to make way for new homes to be built.
"The day they tore it down the traffic jam on the road in front was just like it was when I was a kid," said Pat Kenyon, 59, of Pleasant Lake, who grew up there, worked at Bartlett's soda fountain one summer and now serves as Henrietta Township's deputy clerk.
"It was a landmark that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people."
Son of Mortimer & Ellen J (Pomeroy) Bartlett.
Name: Hugh D. Bartlett
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1877
Birthplace: Tompkins, Jackson, Michigan
Father's Name: Mortimer E. Bartlett
Mother's Name: Etire J. Bartlett
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01876-5
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
Source Film Number: 2320452
Collection: Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995
1870 MI Census Jackson Co Tompkins
Mortimer Bartlett 30
Ellen Bartlett 30
Chester Bartlett 9
Charles Bartlett 7
Fred Bartlett 3
Hugh Bartlett 2
May Armstrong 13
1900 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Mortimer E Bartlett 50
Ellen J Bartlett 50
Hugh Bartlett 22
Pheobe Ann Bartlett 71
Fred R Bartlett 23
Fannie Bartlett 23
Larue Bartlett 4
Fredrick Parker 22
Harvey Raymond 24
Groom's Name: Hugh Dale Bartlett
Groom's Birth Date: 1878
Groom's Birthplace: Tompkins
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Maud M. Perrine
Bride's Birth Date: 1874
Bride's Birthplace: Jackson
Bride's Age: 26
Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1900
Marriage Place: Jackson, Jackson Co., Michigan
Groom's Father's Name: Mortimar Bartlett
Groom's Mother's Name: Pomeroy
Bride's Father's Name: Hulbert Perrine
Bride's Mother's Name: Reed
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M74375-9
System Origin: Michigan-EASy
Source Film Number: 941639
Reference Number: 354
1910 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Hugh Bartlett 32
Maud M Bartlett 34
1920 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Jas H Cochrane 67
Bertha Cochrane 55
Hulbert Cochrane 18
Irene Cochrane 20
Vera Cochrane 0[6/12]
Hugh D Bartlett 42 brother
Maude Bartlett 45
Jackson Cit Pat 9 July 2011 "A Peek Through Time":
Nothing beats a glorious summer day at the lake, followed by a night of good friends, good music and good dancing.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, all of that was ripe for the picking on the shores of Pleasant Lake at Bartlett's Resort.
Even though it was torn down five years ago, generations of people still swear they can hear the laughter of kids heading down the big slide into the water or the melodies of the big-name Big Band and rock 'n' roll groups that played there.
"There was always excitement at Bartlett's," said Kit Navarre, 64, of Elgin, Ill., a 1965 Jackson High School graduate and admitted regular. "People were dressed up and had their aftershave on and were ready for dancing. It was fast music and fast cars — good stuff."
Navarre talks about the early '60s when rock 'n' roll groups like Bill Haley & His Comets were on the bill at Bartlett's. But his reminiscing fits easily with a generation before that swayed there in the '40s to the tunes of the likes of The Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Bartlett's beginnings on the northeast shore of Pleasant Lake in Henrietta Township go back to 1916 when Hugh Bartlett was given the land on which it sat by his father, Mortimer, a Jackson merchant.
Hugh Bartlett was born in Tompkins Center and had worked for 10 years in the family's downtown Jackson confectionery store, first at 404 N. Milwaukee St. and then at 1137 E. Main St., before building his two-level dance hall.
It was destroyed by a lightning strike and fire in 1927, but Bartlett rebuilt a year later and added a miniature golf course, arcade games, swimming rafts and water slides.
For decades to come, the lower level of this building housed pinball machines, pool tables, a candy counter and a restaurant with an ice cream soda fountain.
The second floor was just for dancing. A large mirrored ball that hung in the middle of the ceiling cast star-like spots on the floor when the lights went down and a spotlight hit it.
The resort soared in popularity in the early 1940s when the Big Bands came to Bartlett's between gigs in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Count Basie, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, and Tommy Dorsey all played there.
"It was an amazing time," said Joan Hart, 87, of Pleasant Lake. "We went to dances three or four times a week. Bartlett's was a huge part of my life. I had such wonderful times there and wonderful memories."
Hugh Bartlett sold his resort to Chuck and Bobbie Walker of Rives Junction in 1952 and died a year later. But the Walkers kept the music and the dancing going through the '50s and '60s when rock ‘n' roll bands, including British Invasion groups like Herman's Hermits and Chad & Jeremy, played Bartlett's and drew teenagers in GTOs, Mustangs, Oldsmobile 442s Coronets and Corvettes.
"It was great to pull into the parking lot and hear the music and see all the fabulous cars — mostly convertibles with their tops down," Navarre said. "It was a great place to spend a summer evening. It was a great time to be a teenager."
In the early days of Motown, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops and The Temptations all played Bartlett's.
"They'd arrive in a school bus, and it was so early in the mix that The Supremes wore prom dresses for costumes," Navarre said.
The Walkers sold Bartlett's to Hershel "Gene" Davis in 1968, and on Sept. 24, 1970, it looked like the landmark was gone forever when it was again leveled by a fire that apparently started at a grill in Cobbler's Tavern on the ground floor.
Davis fought the flames with an extinguisher in the 3 minutes it took for the first firefighters to arrive. They all thought they had the blaze confined to the kitchen, but it had spread beneath a false ceiling that covered two-thirds of the ground floor and burst up through to the dance hall, where the heavily varnished hardwood floor fed the flames that were also whipped by high winds.
Firefighters from Henrietta, Blackman, Leoni and Rives townships and Leslie and Stockbridge fought the huge blaze to no avail.
"I remember watching it burn from my upstairs bedroom window," said Marianne Allen Ray, 66, of Cheboygan, who grew up across the lake from Bartlett's in a neighborhood called The Grove. "It was horrible. It was never really the same after that."
Davis rebuilt Bartlett's as a 320-seat restaurant and lounge in 1971 and ran it until 1976 when he sold it to George and Lucy Glinsky. Their son Tony took over in 1985 and ran Bartlett's until closing it for good in 2001. The building was torn down June 7, 2006, to make way for new homes to be built.
"The day they tore it down the traffic jam on the road in front was just like it was when I was a kid," said Pat Kenyon, 59, of Pleasant Lake, who grew up there, worked at Bartlett's soda fountain one summer and now serves as Henrietta Township's deputy clerk.
"It was a landmark that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people."
Name: Hugh D. Bartlett
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 04 Dec 1877
Birthplace: Tompkins, Jackson, Michigan
Father's Name: Mortimer E. Bartlett
Mother's Name: Etire J. Bartlett
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C01876-5
System Origin: Michigan-ODM
Source Film Number: 2320452
Collection: Michigan Births and Christenings, 1775-1995
1870 MI Census Jackson Co Tompkins
Mortimer Bartlett 30
Ellen Bartlett 30
Chester Bartlett 9
Charles Bartlett 7
Fred Bartlett 3
Hugh Bartlett 2
May Armstrong 13
1900 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Mortimer E Bartlett 50
Ellen J Bartlett 50
Hugh Bartlett 22
Pheobe Ann Bartlett 71
Fred R Bartlett 23
Fannie Bartlett 23
Larue Bartlett 4
Fredrick Parker 22
Harvey Raymond 24
Groom's Name: Hugh Dale Bartlett
Groom's Birth Date: 1878
Groom's Birthplace: Tompkins
Groom's Age: 22
Bride's Name: Maud M. Perrine
Bride's Birth Date: 1874
Bride's Birthplace: Jackson
Bride's Age: 26
Marriage Date: 22 Oct 1900
Marriage Place: Jackson, Jackson Co., Michigan
Groom's Father's Name: Mortimar Bartlett
Groom's Mother's Name: Pomeroy
Bride's Father's Name: Hulbert Perrine
Bride's Mother's Name: Reed
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M74375-9
System Origin: Michigan-EASy
Source Film Number: 941639
Reference Number: 354
1910 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Hugh Bartlett 32
Maud M Bartlett 34
1920 MI Census Jackson Co Jackson
Jas H Cochrane 67
Bertha Cochrane 55
Hulbert Cochrane 18
Irene Cochrane 20
Vera Cochrane 0[6/12]
Hugh D Bartlett 42 brother
Maude Bartlett 45
Jackson Cit Pat 9 July 2011 "A Peek Through Time":
Nothing beats a glorious summer day at the lake, followed by a night of good friends, good music and good dancing.
From the 1940s through the 1960s, all of that was ripe for the picking on the shores of Pleasant Lake at Bartlett's Resort.
Even though it was torn down five years ago, generations of people still swear they can hear the laughter of kids heading down the big slide into the water or the melodies of the big-name Big Band and rock 'n' roll groups that played there.
"There was always excitement at Bartlett's," said Kit Navarre, 64, of Elgin, Ill., a 1965 Jackson High School graduate and admitted regular. "People were dressed up and had their aftershave on and were ready for dancing. It was fast music and fast cars — good stuff."
Navarre talks about the early '60s when rock 'n' roll groups like Bill Haley & His Comets were on the bill at Bartlett's. But his reminiscing fits easily with a generation before that swayed there in the '40s to the tunes of the likes of The Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Bartlett's beginnings on the northeast shore of Pleasant Lake in Henrietta Township go back to 1916 when Hugh Bartlett was given the land on which it sat by his father, Mortimer, a Jackson merchant.
Hugh Bartlett was born in Tompkins Center and had worked for 10 years in the family's downtown Jackson confectionery store, first at 404 N. Milwaukee St. and then at 1137 E. Main St., before building his two-level dance hall.
It was destroyed by a lightning strike and fire in 1927, but Bartlett rebuilt a year later and added a miniature golf course, arcade games, swimming rafts and water slides.
For decades to come, the lower level of this building housed pinball machines, pool tables, a candy counter and a restaurant with an ice cream soda fountain.
The second floor was just for dancing. A large mirrored ball that hung in the middle of the ceiling cast star-like spots on the floor when the lights went down and a spotlight hit it.
The resort soared in popularity in the early 1940s when the Big Bands came to Bartlett's between gigs in Detroit and Grand Rapids. Count Basie, Harry James, Duke Ellington, Stan Kenton, Les Brown, and Tommy Dorsey all played there.
"It was an amazing time," said Joan Hart, 87, of Pleasant Lake. "We went to dances three or four times a week. Bartlett's was a huge part of my life. I had such wonderful times there and wonderful memories."
Hugh Bartlett sold his resort to Chuck and Bobbie Walker of Rives Junction in 1952 and died a year later. But the Walkers kept the music and the dancing going through the '50s and '60s when rock ‘n' roll bands, including British Invasion groups like Herman's Hermits and Chad & Jeremy, played Bartlett's and drew teenagers in GTOs, Mustangs, Oldsmobile 442s Coronets and Corvettes.
"It was great to pull into the parking lot and hear the music and see all the fabulous cars — mostly convertibles with their tops down," Navarre said. "It was a great place to spend a summer evening. It was a great time to be a teenager."
In the early days of Motown, The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, The Four Tops and The Temptations all played Bartlett's.
"They'd arrive in a school bus, and it was so early in the mix that The Supremes wore prom dresses for costumes," Navarre said.
The Walkers sold Bartlett's to Hershel "Gene" Davis in 1968, and on Sept. 24, 1970, it looked like the landmark was gone forever when it was again leveled by a fire that apparently started at a grill in Cobbler's Tavern on the ground floor.
Davis fought the flames with an extinguisher in the 3 minutes it took for the first firefighters to arrive. They all thought they had the blaze confined to the kitchen, but it had spread beneath a false ceiling that covered two-thirds of the ground floor and burst up through to the dance hall, where the heavily varnished hardwood floor fed the flames that were also whipped by high winds.
Firefighters from Henrietta, Blackman, Leoni and Rives townships and Leslie and Stockbridge fought the huge blaze to no avail.
"I remember watching it burn from my upstairs bedroom window," said Marianne Allen Ray, 66, of Cheboygan, who grew up across the lake from Bartlett's in a neighborhood called The Grove. "It was horrible. It was never really the same after that."
Davis rebuilt Bartlett's as a 320-seat restaurant and lounge in 1971 and ran it until 1976 when he sold it to George and Lucy Glinsky. Their son Tony took over in 1985 and ran Bartlett's until closing it for good in 2001. The building was torn down June 7, 2006, to make way for new homes to be built.
"The day they tore it down the traffic jam on the road in front was just like it was when I was a kid," said Pat Kenyon, 59, of Pleasant Lake, who grew up there, worked at Bartlett's soda fountain one summer and now serves as Henrietta Township's deputy clerk.
"It was a landmark that meant an awful lot to an awful lot of people."
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