by Nathan Bechtold | Apr 30, 2019 | Featured, Stories
John and Julie Figura spent their dating years boating on the Mississippi. John, an electrical engineer by trade, worked in satellite communications. He has been a boater since before he had a driver’s license, and tells a lot of great stories about skiing and...
by Nathan Bechtold | Apr 8, 2019 | Featured, Stories
by Michael Gillespie (posthumous) and Nathan Bechtold Don’t read this if you are squeamish about cemeteries. Especially don’t read this if you dread the thought that there might be burial sites under the Lake of the Ozarks directly in front of your property. You see,...
by Nathan Bechtold | Mar 23, 2019 | Featured, Stories
The Lake of the Ozarks has evolved from a rustic hunting and fishing destination to the boating Mecca of the Midwest. Here’s a peek at the Lake’s second decade: the 1940s.1940s — Boating Grows With Post-War ProsperityDisposable Income Increases. Vacations...
by Nathan Bechtold | Jan 23, 2019 | Featured, Stories
While very little of the Netflix series Ozark was filmed at the lake where the story takes place, the show still resonates with those who live at Lake of the Ozarks or love to visit. Not all Ozarkians appreciated Ozark’s magnification of the drug and crime elements,...
by vryxpivs-ca | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured, Stories
Boaters love Missouri. Besides being home to the number one recreational lake in the country—Lake of the Ozarks—Missouri also boasts several other very popular lakes for recreational boaters and anglers, as well as the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.But Lake of the...
by vryxpivs-ca | Jan 8, 2019 | Featured, Stories
For almost 40 years, I’ve celebrated the arrival of spring at Lake of the Ozarks.When the redbuds and dogwoods bloom, I want to be in a boat on the big lake, casting for bass and crappies.It’s a time when the giant reservoir shows its mild side, long before the water...
