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It's been more than eight decades since the bar and dance hall originally known as The Cedars opened in 1942 on the west side of Priest Lake, Idaho - and almost as long since Ward and Millie Adams took ownership of the bar. All these years later it is still called Millie's.
But this isn't just a history of a bar, or a restaurant, or a dance hall. The cedar logs that make up its walls and ceiling, the photos on the walls, and even the name itself carry with them the history of place. The stories recounted here encapsulate the evolving past of the lake community. This building - once The Cedars, now Millie's - offers a microcosm of more than 80 years of the Priest Lake community, a history well worth discovering.
Jeff Smith
Jeff Smith is a Professor of Film Studies in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin--Madison, where he earned his Ph.D. He is the author of two books: The Sounds of Commerce: Marketing Popular Film
Music (1998) and Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist: Reading the Hollywood Reds (2014). He has also published several articles and book chapters on the role of sound and music in American cinema. He is currently at work on a book that traces development of the classical Hollywood film score during the 1930s that examines how studios allocated musical resources to films based on their position within the hierarchy of prestige pictures, programmers, and "B" films.
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