Great memories of Jay, driving up to Canada to buy Brador Beer and having them tear the car apart thinking they would find weed.
Jay has had its own set of problems of late...
It has changed a lot in the last 20 years.
They have 3 hotels. Hundreds of condos. A 18 hole golf course.
An indoor ice arena and an indoor water park.
Most of these are at the base of the tram.
Stateside has a base lodge, a hotel and more condos.
There is also a major criminal lawsuit against the main developer they came in about 15 years back.
The mountain itself really has not changed much other than widening some of the trails and thinning out the woods. It is my favorite ski mountain.
Molson Brador and Extra Stock were big with us back in the 1970s-1980s where I grew up in the suburbs of Buffalo.
We used to drive across the Peace Bridge and to Consumers Beverage just to buy those higher alcohol beverages.
Our other favorite back in the day were OV Spilts. Old Vienna 7 oz lager beers in little glass bottles. Mulligans Brick Bar in the Allentown section of Buffalo used to sell those to you by the case over the bar on Monday nights. By the end of the evening, the brick floor of the bar would be covered with beer and glass.