Candy bars and con artists: Tales from inside the Canteen
By Patrick Quinn
Guest columnist
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From its perch on the Lake Geneva lakefront, the American Legion Canteen has served generations of beach goers with ice cream, sandwiches and more. (Photo by Scott Williams/Regional News)
The American Legion Canteen is shown in the foreground as construction workers in the background build the Riviera in the 1930s on Lake Geneva’s lakefront, in a photo provided by the Geneva Lake Museum. (Contributed photo/Regional News)
Scott Williams
The silhouette of a person is visible leaning against the American Legion Canteen just behind a pickup truck in this image, courtesy of Geneva Lake Museum, showing the Lake Geneva Riviera construction site in the 1930s. (Contributed photo/Regional News)
There is no better place in Lake Geneva to watch tourists from Chicago and its suburbs during the summers than from inside the American Legion Canteen in Library Park overlooking Geneva Lake. How do I know that? Because I worked at the American Legion Canteen during the summers from 1950 to 1960.
From its perch on the Lake Geneva lakefront, the American Legion Canteen has served generations of beach goers with ice cream, sandwiches and more. (Photo by Scott Williams/Regional News)
The American Legion Canteen is shown in the foreground as construction workers in the background build the Riviera in the 1930s on Lake Geneva’s lakefront, in a photo provided by the Geneva Lake Museum. (Contributed photo/Regional News)
The silhouette of a person is visible leaning against the American Legion Canteen just behind a pickup truck in this image, courtesy of Geneva Lake Museum, showing the Lake Geneva Riviera construction site in the 1930s. (Contributed photo/Regional News)
