I just stumbled across the web pages on Banner Lodge. I found it very interesting since Claire and Lou Goldblatt are my great aunt and uncle. Lou's brother Morris Goldblatt is my mother's (Myra) father. My mother spent time there when she was a child.
I spent a few summers at Banner Lodge with my parents and brother when I was a preteen. If I recall family lore correctly, Pop Banner bought the farm from the Mostel family, as in Zero, who were related to the Banners. I recall seeing an old man sweeping the parking lot every morning as we went to breakfast -- I think I was told it was Zero's father, but perhaps it was Pop Banner.
Claire and Lou returned to New York in the off season (Claire ran a dress shop) and remained good friends with Zero -- they would have Zero and his family over for dinner. After Claire and Lou retired to North Miami Beach (where I would visit them as I was in and out of Miami several times in the 1970s and 1980s), I believe Zero would stay with them there.
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