 Customers could wait within the front parlor, where old overstuffed couches were provided along with old copies of such magazines as "Life" and "Saturday Review", or they could go through the serving area to the bar and wait there while enjoying horseradish cottage cheese dip with ridged potato chips.There was also an outside porch and in earlier years a gazebo and tables set up in the back by the rushing New Haven River.Benches out front read "Vermont Democrats" and "Vermont Republicans".