The Cascades

One of the most widely known restaurants in the area was the two story wooden building known as the Cascades. The 45×100 foot restaurant was built in 1927 and a ballroom was added in 1934 that featured live entertainment. Count Basie once played there as well as many of the prominent “Big Bands” of that era. The Adirondack style building on Cascades Road was destroyed by fire in January 1952 and all that remains today is the stone chimney, part of the foundation, and the beautiful cascading waterfall.

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Exterior
Exterior, circa 1937
Interior
Interior
1931 interior view. The stone chimney is still standing in 2021
Cascades Restuarant Menu
Cascades Restuarant Menu
Cascades Restuarant Menu
Cascades Restuarant Menu
Buddy Rich and his orchestra
Buddy Rich and his orchestra
Hal McIntyre
Hal McIntyre
In 1948 Steffie Eisler, owner of The Cascades produced a Minstrel Show for the benefit of the Danby Recreation Committee.
Merchants and lodging and dining establishments purchased ads in the Program.
Reid Lefevre, known as King Reid of Circus fame and also a State Legislator wrote the foreward.
Waterfalls behind building for Whig restaurant was named