THE GENESIS OF TIME-SHARING. On my recent swing through some eastern states I had the opportunity to visit the site of the South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club ( it is not too far from Horseshoe Curve on the mainline of the Pennsylvania Railroad.) Some of the private cottages and part of the large clubhouse still remain (after the flood of 1889, some cottages housed squatters; a few have been fixed up as private houses.) The curator of the clubhouse building told me that most of the facilities were used by well-to-do Pittsburghers for two weeks during the summer. Is the club the first example of the time-share condominium.

The concept has expanded some over the years: neither I nor the family I visited at the Marriott Manor in Williamsburg would be confused with Mellons or Fricks.