The Lone Pine Resort

On our new lakeside property in southern Missouri, there was only one pine tree. It was a very very tall tree, hovering over all the other many trees. Dad and mom decided to name our resort the Lone Pine Resort. This resort was in the Ozarks on Table Rock Lake. It was off of Highway 13 on DD highway. Our cabins were three sets of duplexes. We moved into Cabin #1 because it was larger than the others. I guess you could call it a suite. It was about 10 to 12 miles down a dead end road. The closest towns were Reeds Spring which had a population of about 300 or so, and Branson. Branson was several times bigger than Reeds Spring, but still considered a small townl. There wasn't much of anything there, just your normal small town businesses--churchs, drug store, movie theatre, grocery store ect. We sometimes went in to Branson for our grocery shopping, but usually we drove an hour into Springfield.

Branson was not a "country music capitol" at the time we lived there. There was Silver Dollar City, Fairy Cave, Marvel Cave and the Shepard of the Hills theatre. The Baldknobbers and the Presleys were the two country music show and always had a "hillbilly" funny guy in the act. All these attractions were not in Branson, most of them were on Highway 76 on the way to Branson.