It looks like it's final. The Sportsmen's Lodge out in the Valley, which I wrote about here, will lose its banquet and meeting facilities in a few months when they're torn down to make way for a shopping center. I can't even imagine how many Bar Mitzvah receptions, weddings, memorial services, business meetings, coming-out parties, lectures, fund-raising dinners, social gatherings and such were held on those soon-to-be-extinct premises.
Here are some photos of bygone days. You'll notice some people going trout fishing in the bodies of water on the grounds there. That was a long time ago. I wish they'd had trout the last twenty-or-so years there. I could have brought along my Popeil Pocket Fisherman® and been spared eating the Play-Doh Tri-Tip and the Silly Putty Potatoes.