09/17/2026
The Frontier Dining Room had a detail that longtime guests remember better than almost any other: the water glasses. Made by the Blenko Glass Company of West Virginia, each one was a unique piece of hand-blown art in brilliant colors, no two exactly alike. Families who visited the dining room in the 1970s still describe them. The Frontier Dining Room also had a standing dress code: sport coat required to sit at a window table. If you arrived without one, the coat check kept several available to borrow. The policy was summarized on a sign that read: "Shores are nix after six." The combination of Blenko water glasses and a borrowed sport coat was, apparently, exactly the right level of occasion.