Do you have any theories about how Rockwood Lodge burned down? And was the lodge one of the reasons Curly Lambeau relinquished his duties with the team?
Rockwood Lodge, located roughly 18 miles northeast of Green Bay along the bayshore, was the Packers’ training site from 1946-49. It was destroyed by fire Jan. 24, 1950.
Melvin Flagstad, the lodge’s caretaker, blamed the fire on faulty wiring and said he had always feared there’d be a fire there. Weather contributed to it becoming an inferno. Jan. 24 was an unseasonable, 40-degree day with thunder and lightning, fog and a 25-mile per hour wind.