During the 1950s, Al Crinzi and Ernie Jones owned cottages across the street from each other on Vanderstel Dr. (Numbers 75 and 80 on the 1957 Bills Lake Census map). Their wives, Glada Crinzi and Merl Jones, were sisters. The Crinzi cottage is currently owned by Dan and Mary Kozera. The Jones cottage was recently torn down and a new dwelling was constructed by Denny Miller and Tony Craft.

This picture, dated summer 1952, is of a picnic which took place on the shoreline of the path that led from the end of Vanderstel Point (now the Wade house) to Swift's Landing where the ice cream -candy store was. Ernie Jones is in the striped shirt but the lady across the table from him is not his wife Merl but instead her sister Zella. The cottage in the background belonged to Arnold Weber (No. 74).

The youngster on the ground to the right is Lee Noffsinger of Richmond VA who provided the picture. His grandmother, Meda, was born in 1881 and lived for decades on Livingston St. N.W. in Grand Rapids. Meda's sisters were Glada, Merl, and Zella.