Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long ago, going away for the summer was a privilege of the rich, and the oh-so-rich at that. Baedeker's United States, published in 1909, rated Bar Harbor and Newport as the two top resorts, and after that the Grand Tour was only a question of whether one preferred the Berkshires to Saratoga, White Sulphur to Hot Springs, or how long to remain at Tuxedo Park. Because the rich were so few, they clustered together in tight little colonies. Their "cottages" were turreted mansions, marble palaces and crenelated castles; they entertained only each other. Their summer colonies were...
...boccie. To gain membership in any of these hallowed institutions is every bit as difficult as it was to be accepted in Newport back in the days when old John Jacob Astor remarked that "a man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich." In some ways it may be more difficult today; since many of Newport's most influential regulars are no longer rich themselves, they are apt to screen newcomers more on the basis of family or behavior rather than wealth. Recalling that Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, one of the doyennes of Newport...
...days gone by, the rich of Chicago, Detroit, and the rest of the Midwest solved their vacation problems simply: they went to New England. But then they discovered some treasures of their own closer at hand, notably the northern tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, which juts out between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The result was resorts like Charlevoix, Wequetonsing and Harbor Point. Often they are patterned after classic New England counterparts. They are family oriented, many elaborately unostentatious, and no effort is made to attract outsiders?though well-sponsored families from as far away as St. Louis...
...hostelry the Broadmoor. Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!", the rate on the bridal suite immediately was tripled, and the arriving oil-rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession...
...Angeles has proclaimed its superior locale and climate for so long that some people find it hard to believe that a native would ever dream of leaving home, even in the summer. Yet, no matter how close they are to a beach in winter, when summer comes many rich Angelenos decide that they want to be even closer; no matter how high they are perched on a hill, many decide they want to go still higher. The result is that although the city has something approaching summer all year long, the surrounding area still is heavily stocked with summer resorts...