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VOLUME• NINETY-SIX
SAUGATUCK.
MICHIGAN. THUU,SD -\ Y . SEP f J1~~IBgR
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NUMBER
THIRTY-SIX
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ROWDIES .FACE TOUGH POLICING SWEDISH
THROUGH LABOR DAY WEEKEND ~~~:0
CHORALE
: 0!~~E
RE-NOMINATE GILMAN· ANDREWS
DEFEATS GREIG .BY 9 VOTES
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_ fo the only race. on the township
Saugatuck High 'School last SaturRepub,liican ticket in
, ..-the primaries
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uay mg ht' W as ti1 e scene of a cul.
tural ,exc,.l-iange. program a t th eir.
Mondar, towns~ip clerk Charles H.
l~g:es . . It is th': ' traditional' ." 1~st ..
very. finest. The Swedish Yout h Ch.
Gilman. handily defeated Marshall
il11pg" after!. whJch the vacaibionmg
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h 1 .
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orale present ed one of the very fin1
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Greene ,for ·. r·a-~omm'~-.... on m' both
pop.ulation
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. sc oo or
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est concer ts ever £)resent ed iri t bis _
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Saugatqck and Douglas. In all other
.Sr.ugatuck
the .JOb. is prepared
. for a hor, · .the
• yourrg
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. ages in ,area,
The _·other day Lyle Anderson
. , _of ,..•eQ"
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• " lJ.i.;_ .- o"',rce·s . '.ltl:-a
'"Cum"~n..,.
For
fry ·•of all
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. and .the unmed'11he group, .made up . of some 57 Kalamazoo, commodore of the
de . of young punks somewhat: 1ik e Sa ugatuck, Douglas
h ' f,iSmh wer e unop~os ed.
. . In th. e CO""ty
....._. , the
the Fourth of July in.filux, After· con- iate ·areas ..:..:. kinder.ga rte ners · to young men and women from St ock- ~a,pore Ya.~ t Club, got o~t JS . s - ' hot race was for· p,:oseclitor.
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holm, Sweden, sang and danced . mg rod, bai:ted a hook :with a piece
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sider-'lble talk of "getting tough" seniors - next week is IT. Then
oi a hotdog and dropped it into Kal- . Gilman _puµed 18~ votes m Dougth
with . them, .:: plan of action had beeri comes the opening of another school 1:!heir way into
e hearts of every
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d G n h d 118 I Sauga
m ember of the standing room only amazoo I..iake from his boat, Lydee,, as .an
ree e a
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deveJoped . Putting ilt into effect will year. Ther e also are Christmas and
t "'- s·
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•t\lck· Gi1man was 209 and Greene
audiience- Their choral numbers la rne mgapore a-rma .
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IJP. an ;iu gmented Saugatuck police Thanksg:ving ahead , but these are
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1.36. Unopposed and renominated
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depa rtment, deputies from 1:!he coun- haJJ.)lpier
occasions
for· the · whole lot wer e pol!ished to pertection and thell'
.
hBefore long.
'bh' there were md1crutions
th . k were p1.,
w.1
ua e as supervisor,
0 ~ b e noo · George. Drought as treasurer, Vic
.t y sherif.f 's. office and State .Police. of them.
folk da.nce numb ers , c-ornpleite witalh ~ a t . s~me. :~ .;as .gh
: The villa ge .tr:µ_;;te.es <oi Saugatucl,{
Pr,eliminary Ito 1bhe opening of naitive coSturne, wer e education
uspec ng ai 1 mi
, _e a card
p, Egelkraut as ,trustee, Erv Kasten,
and ver-y enter taining. (Most of. the -Lyle slowly worked the 1iri~ towar, s S
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.. th
M
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have : compo_s~ .t pe 0 fpl1o,w.ing staite- classes this week iis the opening of
.
h' ho t
th
(
thin )
r ., as Jusuce o, e peace, r aune
m ~rrt on ·»hat ·•t he· ·••1,,,,{:-,filmg" el~-. the book stores. For •the hio:h · school, audience was roaring W1th laughter di'.sd a1..,..al s ulelin
carpinor some t gh Herbert as ronstaible.
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at the hurnerous antics of several
a k Le P
g.
a mom en e
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m ent may e~~ct arid'' "tel.eased" it it will be this Thursday and Friday of the m embers) .
h ad it near enough to the surface ... . On the m edical care faclu1ty, both
· to ' "the press ,- this.·1.\1esday:.. .
(Sept. 3 <).nd 4) . On both di'.3.y s the
to see wh;,.t he had hooked.
villages vo1Jed favornlbly: Saugatuck
... ' . c1·tt'•;;.en""Study ·P_fobt'em
hours will be 9: 00 a.m. to 12 noon ,
'I'hose who missed this concert
.,,., 49
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It was
C'""" · It was no bcl.l~ ,wu:_.Uli ll. yes
no,
oUJE,Las
' 'Rowdies who fiQ.utJ,h~)a~ in the and 1: 00 to 4: 00 p.m.
cel11lainly missed a :performance o
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th 145
d 138
On. th
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qual;:h,
The
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was
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But
it
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young
northern
Wlimilla
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had
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Then, next
ay
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resort village of Saugatuck, Mich· M" hi
this
r pike some 15 inches Long! On ·a
ge 15sue ,
. c
igan, can expect a quick response opening schedule gets ilts start as sponsoreel m ic ' gan
summe
s 1:¼ no· Douglas had 140 yes
•b v the You"..
For Under,.,..anding
weiner! It went b.a<:k into the wat.er . Y
e '
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f rom a gre.a.itly augmen, ted State, the facul,ty meets from 9: 00 a .m. t o J '
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function
For . Bihl Vande Berg of Hohl.and
no.
Sheriff, ar.d local police forces for 12 noon, From 1:30 to 3: 30 in· the A ssoma
....on whose prunary
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· the ..~,po nsorshl"'
Andrew s ·1 0 ""---·t
the coriunJ Labor Day weekend, afternoon itihere
will· be :registration
JS
" o•"- student ex - iit was a different story. He was us~ Wln
with strict- enforcement of sta.te f:or grades K tlhrough 6 at the Doug- ohange programs be'tween the U.S. ing _a "red eye " antifioial lure a~d
Hot race in the county was for
law~ and foea.l ordiin~es, especial; 1~ ··El~nllari -,'Schopl , and grades and Europe.
· ~ g from a boait near th e bm<l- .proseculiµlg attorney with incumbent
Iy regardir.g alcoholic beverages and 7 througih 9 lalf. Sa.ugaifuck Hi;gh. Also · Saugatuck High School will be a ge. H'.s ~atch would gra~e any tr,,bl!! · Art~ws bare1y , no~ing out Greig,
loitermg·
,on Tuesday, .the high school book cooperative memlber of the group for his ,wo north ern pile•.! were 10 3735 to 3726. '!1here m:ay be a re"Youths o! college .and high schoo1 store will be open 9:0Q a .m. to 12, this y~ as Miss Gunnel Gradin of anJ 11 pounds and both rr-ore 1lhan count asked.
age are finding this holiday Viillage· 1: 00 to 4: 00 p.m.
•
Sweden will be enrolling as a·-stu- 34 innches long.
Sherii!f Whitcomb won ~om.ina~
increasJngly unatti-actwe- to their un .,.
First Vla._<;sCS Phursday
den t m Sa.u.gatuok High School. She
d on for Umt o.t'.t!ice ow::r Sclm!i .by
inhibLted dc:Structive .hi-j.µ]ks since
These pre1jnJ.ina.rles will ,b e con- wJJJ· be living w:ith Mr. a.nd · nMs. SLNCLA.IB
STA.TION
to ~
.Ben L,al.znuur
8 vvte at' ~
the Memorial Day and July Fourth ooued Wednesday (Sept. 9). There William · Allen while she is here.
TO AID HOSPITAL
with 2800 had no trouble with Root
weekend disturbances.
will be reglistration h'om 9:00 a.m.
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Stanley Nowak, of the Sinclair wd.th n ~ . for 8';ate r e-presentati.v;e,
A citizens committee appointed by to 12 noon - grades K through 6 at
Service Stia~ on on US-31 in Douglas, ibut returns from :the rest of the
President Lynn McCray to study the Douglas, and grades lO fu.rough 12
and his customers, will give the district m ay change this. Elly Petproblems has made several recom- at Saugatuck. Thel'le will be la facCommunity Hospital a h~ing hand erson was favored fur the U.S. Senrnenct'.3.tions to the village board.
ulcy meelting from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
.t his weekend. On Saturday, Sunday a te ag_a inst two men, and Cong. Ed
No Night Con~t
The high school book s tore will be
and Monday (Sept, 5, 6, 7), Stan Hutchinson was unopposed. R.om"
1 oo
The Saugaituck-Douglas Chamber
9 00
t 12 , and .i:rom
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will o:ive 4 cents on each gallon of iney won in a runaway against his
"These suggestions include a open : a .m. 0
of Commerce is now engaged in its
e;t 4 00
gasoline purchaJSed rut :the station to rival Riooins.
change in traffic pattern, strict traf- o : st p.m.
d
f sch001 1
f
annual membershlp drive, seelcing
O
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ay
c asses or
~e Hos~;":-al. The money will go to
County wise the medical center
fic cnfo::-cement and parking regure-newals and new members from
P""
d 1 thro h 12 ill be Th
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ug
w ·
urs:b uy beds, wheelchairs or other neds lost 4062-3320, as also did the millage
lati,Jr,s to keep fire lanes open at all gra es
day, Sept. 10, with the first day for fue area.
of the institution· Nancy Fosdick, issue, 3862-3677.
limes .
The annual meeting for th e elec- the Saugatuick-'Douglas 1964 Queen
In this predonderately Republican
"In line with this thrinking, Jus- kindergartener,s on Friday (Sept.
tion of the board of directors will be wjU help Stan celebrate this occas- county, Pemocra,ts had a slate of
tice Erv. Kaslten, Sr., has announc- 11).
Toan Swaiffer, principal, will be held Thursday,, Sept. 17, in the Sau- ion.
unopposed candidates .
.ed ihat Justice court will be open
available
to
discuss
indiv.idu,al
schgatuck
Village
Ha
ll.
The
new
board
from 9 a.:m. to 5 ip.im. daily, ex.cept
Sun·rnys tnd holidays, and that l.aw eduJe problems on Thursday 1: 00 - will elect officers for the ensuing
year.
vfolators brough/t in after 1:!hese 4:00 and Friday 9: 00 - 12: 00.
hours be required to post bond or ·
be jailed until the jusitice orders
their appearance for trail. This
The Summer School of Painting "The Burial of the Year," which
m etans those arrested Saturday at
at Ox~Bow has closed after ,a most has been a tradition since 1931. This
other hours will have a weekend in
successful 54th year. Classes con- pageant, though similar to many
1
jail
tinued tl1roug,b Friday in sculpture, others. was built arow1d the laying
"S~ate, county and local aUJthorwhi:ch had been taught by Freeman of. a concrete platform in front of
SOHEDULE
1 9 6 4
itics J1avc estimated that at least
ived numerals. To ibolSter thiis SchoolClla.ft who is now recuperating the lovely fireplace and c.h.imne-y
2,000 of the unruly crowd over the
gr,aup are l8 new ca ndidates bidding from a coronary aflt.ack in Commun- which alone remains as a symbol of
Sept. 18 - Hopkins • here
Fourth were under-age youths, They
for startin,g positions.
ity Hospital, were finished by Mr. flhe old studio
(torn down three
(D.ay's Day)
advise the parents of this age group
P en and Mr· Fike.
ye~ ago) where so many happy acSept. 25 - Lawton - there
Problems Face Coaches
to come to the vil]a,ge with their
High!y successful this yeiar were tivities have taken place.
Oct. 2 - Martin • here
children, to keep them home, or be
The major problems fa cing the the two courses re-introduced into
This fireplace platform and this
(Homecoming)
prepared to come and gett them if
coaching staff are the qul~lleJ:1b ack tl1e curriculwn: photography under year's tai>lat .in stone marks, .it is
Oct. 9 - tLa.\tTence - there
pos~tion a s well ias the interior line. Wal'lace Kirkland and jewelry under hoped, a new era of expansion for
they get in trouble.
Oct. 16 - Gobles - here
"State and local Police are preWith ,1:Jhe Joss of last y.ears MVP Phlillip F ike, which, with the sculp- the Summer School of Painting at
Oct. 23 - Fennville - there
Tom Sowers through graduation and ,t ure classes added a craiftts atmos- Saugatuck. Much interest h:a.s been
pared to crack down on all lawlessOct. 30 - Open
Dave Baker because of a summer pher e to the school which broaden- shown by Saugatuck residents who
ness on the comirrg La:bor Day
Nov. 6 - Bloomingdale - there
w:ol1k: injury, <the Indians are left eel its scope, painting Jravmg been have visited and have become inweekend."
The Saug,aituck Indians opened without a n eX!perienced quant:eribaok. dominating for the last few years. form€d of t!he school's program.
foo11ba!ll ipraictice J.ast Monday movn- Vieing k filU the ,g ap are J. Tiffany,
'11his was largely due to the return Wlith the closing of school for this
MRS. MARY J. DISHER PASSES ing with 35 lboys iappearing, which B. Vaughti11 a.-id M. Str.empel. The of E lsa U1bricht who believes that season,, plans are already in forAWAY IN COMMUNITY HOSPITAL is ,the Iw,gest ,t urnout lfor l[,ootbaU at other majm· weakness is the interi 1r ·1€' scope of work in any art pro- mation for t:ne fi:11ty-llith season.
Mrs. Mlary J, Disher o'f 135th Saugatuck I-Di~ Soho:ol. The Indians line ,vith the guard a ~d ce nter po- gr am should include as many as pas
Street, passed away art: Community play an otfiiciaJ. lea~e schedule for sitions being hotly cm,tesbed amo'.lg s ible of the expressive arts, She he1·- MAPLEWOOD TAXIS
s elf, with t he help cxf Rachel F.au- SOLD TO FRED PURDY
Hospital, Tuesday, Sept. 1, after suf- rtJhe mrst time and open lllhaiT season several players.
Wii!th rllhe Indians first §ame less cettt, directed students in weaving
Fred Purdy, who has been a drifering 9-' heart iattack Monday. Her aigaitnst last year's confe11ence dhlamthan three weeks aW1ay, the coach- and screen pl.1inting in the Mary ver IDF ithe Maplewood Taxis has
body was ta.le-en to Fall River, S.D. ipions - Hopkins.
Saiugaltuck w.i1I. be attempting to ing staff of Joe Domitrz and Wa1ly Street Studios.
bought t!he operation from Lynn McWednesday for burj/a:1. Her daughter,
Old Year Buried
Cray and takes over on Sept. 8· He
Mrs. Russell Fooce left Wednesday hnrprove on last year's 0-5-1 record H9.Jl!iord face a major task to have
Many students and friends of the wd.11 have offices at the Casablanca
a,iternoon ro attend the seiwices. and wiU •h:ave fue advantaige o'f hav- the boys ready for what appears ro
The oNtuary wiN. app,ear in this ing two lettermen from last yeiar's be an inlteresttlng and ex'Ci.11ing sea- school returned for that last week iHotel and will be known as the Sausquad, and seven players who reoe- son.
and many came for the final rites, gatuck Cab.
paper nem week.
Saugatuck and ·Douglas are looking forward to . I..iaibor Day weekend
cr,owds ,t hat wiJ.l J.)13:Ck the twq vJl-
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SCHOOL PRELJMS '
BEGIN· THURSDAY
OPE·N NEXT WEEK
·
Year's Bes·t .Story - -
H·otd og Hoo.ks Pik
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For L· Anderson
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Membership Drive
.Opened by Chamber
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OX-BOW'S 54TH SEASON ENDS WITH
SUCCESS NOTE; START PLANS FOR '65
INDIANS OPEN FOOTBALL PRACTICE
WITH 1963 CHAMPIONS FOR OPENER
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THE
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COMl'\'IEROIAL RECORD,
THURSDAY,
SE PTE~IBER
3,
1964
' BLUE TEMPO
Kalamazoo public schools. .
Norm Lamb, of Holland, 1s also
A 7Z FESTIVAL •
OVER WEEKEND . played
playing the piano-vibes. He has
JfiL
with many jazz groups in
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ill b
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I the nudwest.
Ra] Ph LeW1S
The Blue Temple Lounge p1ans a
w
e p aymg the
big weekend over Labor Day wi.tlh trumpet. He has been playing_ the . Fred Plummer. drummer,, also
an All-Star entertaiinment feat_uring I ~umpet pro~essionally a number . of 11s from Kalamazoo Plumm~r ap:
many of the top jazz entertamers. mclud:mg w.th the Gr.and Rapids peared two summer at the Big Pa
Among them will be Bob Nelson Symph..onyvilion witn Jens Jensen.
who will be playing the piano-vibes.
/Harry Orr of Kalamazoo will !J,e
Bob Snyder, Grand Rapids, will
Nelson played with many groups playing the clarjnet-alto sax. He j play th e bass and guitar. He has
a round the Battle Creek-~alams.zoo I presently is with the Kalamazoo played with many of the tqp name
area.
I!Symphony and i$ teaching in the , groups throughout the United St.ates.
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BLUE TEMPO
".SAUGATu ·c ·K ·'S .·. FUN
SPOT ''
PRESENTS LABOR DAY . WEEKEND, 1964
':'Top Musical Entertainment"
THURS., ·· FRI., SAT., _SUN.,
MON. ni~es,
. 9:QO .P-"'1·.
and JAZZ SESSIONS SAT., SUN., MON. at 4:30 P.M.
.
THE BLUE TEMPO
. Jazz Comb •o
Above James Mitchell -walks 'i n on Bruce Hall and Elizabeth Lee
I
in a warm emb_race in the adult comedy which closes .a t the Red Barn
Theatre Sunday, September 6 'w\ith the final l)ertorm.a.nce _o l the
season.
I
Bob Nelson ................ .. Piano
Ralph Lewis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Trumpet
Harry Orr ·. . . . . . . . . Clari.net, Alto Sax
Norm Lamb ............ Piano, Vibeg
Freddie P\ummer .. . . . . . . . . . . . Dl'\lmg
~~\. ~"a..""'Jd.e.~ - • • • • • • • • - - • - • • • • ..., \\au.
---- PLUS .....
GIVING A -LUNCHEON .
. A
DINNER
OR ,A BANQUET
Many Noted Jazz Musicians 1Tbrougbout tbe Weekend
Playing tbe 'Best in Jazz - Dixie - Dance
\
LET US BE YOUR HOST
We Serve Sandwiches -
•
Coffee -
Choice Drinks
Our Prices May Seem H igh!
We Welcome You to
,
- But then 1 So is Anything of Value.
DDDDDDDDDE3£3DDDDDCDDDDDDDDCCDDC
Hamilton Lal{_e
OPEN YiEAR RO ,UND
Golf and Country Club
with Live Music Fri., Sat., Sun.
Sa~tuck, Michigan
THANK ,Y OU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE
and Helping •U s Keep Good ·M usic " LIVE"
For An Elegant Atmos ·n ere
All at the· Blue 'T empo thank our Many Custom ers
KENNY, -GEORGE, 1PAT, JOHN;, BUTOH, MIOKIE, NANCY and JOHN
to fit your need -
large or small
parties
FOR RESERVATIONS -
PHONE 857-2000
"THE
BLUE
TE MPO
1
IN
SAUGATUCK
LOU NGE"
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Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection
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Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities.
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1910s-2010s
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Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Douglas (Mich.)
Michigan, Lake
Allegan County (Mich.)
Beaches
Sand dunes
Outdoor recreation
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Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
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Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
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2018
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Volume ninety-six and issue thirty-six of the community newspaper, The Commercial Record, serving Saugatuck-Douglas since 1869. This issue is dated September 3, 1964 and has a series of different stories, sports news, changes in labor day weekend for schools, local politics, as well as local news of a death and Ox-Bow's 54th season. A spread which includes advertisements for the Blue Tempo, as well as news that the lounge plans to have a jazz festival. The advertisement features the different names which are performing at the festival.
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Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich)
Douglas (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich)
Community newspapers
Gay bars
Arts centers
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-~~ _N_INE_•_T_Y_-s_'IX_ _ _ _ _ __
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s_A_
U_G_A_TU_OK_:"._
VENETIAN ·FESTIVAL ATTAINS · NEW
MARKS FOR CROWDS, ·MORE FEATURES
MI_c_m_·_G.:..,AN....:...:.'_.:T:.::.H_URS:..:::..:D:..A:.Y:..:.,_J_U_L_Y_ _3....:
0'~ 1964_ - - - - - --
"My Fair Lady" to
Open August 4 For
Two Weeks at Barn
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•ONE
CITIZENS PROPOSE FOUR STRINGENT
RULES FOR LABOR DAY WEEKEND
The Citizens Committee appointed
Winds O'l'chestra •c>I the Butler Hot::L
,by Lynn McCray, president of the
The sky-diving bf the J ungle Inn
"My F air Lady", that wild!y-,5ucvillage, to consider methods of comSports Sky Div:ng Club of St. Joseph cessrfu!l , history - making, r ecord batting the antics of teen-agers durrthe divers targeting on K1la mazoo br eak!i.ng triumph opens at Saugaing holiday weekends has made its
La ke and then ;ieing picked up by ,t uck's Red B arn Theatre on Tuesday ,
report on its recommendations.
the U.S. Coast Gu ard and Auxil- Aug. 4 (no per<form m ce Aug. 3) .
iary boaits, was a thriner . It was a
Derived by Alan Jay Lerner and
The Committee is composed di
,p erformance new •to many and gave Frederick Loewe Il'Om B ernard
Henry Hungerford, chairman; Mrs.
all exciitem ent :.i:s l:hey J:.it their tar- Shaw's 1914 comedy hit, " P y,g mal
D. A. Byrd, Miss Viola Fox, James
.get per,feotly .
~on" , "My Fair Lady" tells of an
Ohristensen, Art Francis, Fred
The fireworks dispfay, put on in •arrogant , phonetically-obsessed exGo.ers, J ames· Seymour, William
the usual efficien1: m a nner of Bill p ert on diction who makes a bet
Gorz, Garth Wilson, and Rev . DaWilson, was a m ost br illiant and <fuat he can turn a grubby street
Vlid Nelson.
colorful show as the fanta stic patters urchin into a hligh1:oned lady in six
The first meeting was held July
showier ed through the skies. It was months, simply by teaching her to
22 and Sgt. Buschell of the South
a well sEllected program of the pyro- speak corr ectly.
Hiaven Pl:Jlice Post, outlin.ed plans
<techni.cs.
In addrtion to David P al.mer as
the State Police have for the Labor
The Venetian Pam.de, formed and Henry Higgins and p..atr-icia Woods
Day week.end.
headed by Dr. Gordon Striplin , was as Elliza, the cast will include vet
a well 011gani2led .procession of em.n Bruce Hall, Bonnie Hatfield
Committee Reoommenda.ti()lls
h andsomely a nd cleverly d ecorated and Don 'Bonevi'ch. Producer-Direct.At the second meeting, held last
1boaJts, from the prams of the Sauga- or J am es Dyas and Musical Director
Monday evelliing in the Village Hall,
,tuck Yaicht to
the big cruisers, Dr. Jack K,immel direct the show's
tihe Comm.iiutee prepared four recomwhich was thoroughly enjoyed by a scenes and songs.
m endait.ions to the Village Board of
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two-we eks r un( with a spedal Sun1. Following Sgi. Busche-Id 's sugwi th activity from begummg
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a nd the b ig parade ,gave a Va'.I"iety
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N ancy' daughter oi Cna:r\es "Fosdi.c°R,
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gradua,tecl trom 'Sau,gal\:u:ck B.i.gh Kee11 tta\tti.c movmg, esl)ectally m.
Star.ti~g off
d~y was the finish ,
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tbe commercial zone.
from m1d-morrung mto afternoon, of
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Runners-up in t he beauty con test
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the a nnual Gold Bowl r ace of the
th t
h ld 1 t Wedn d
?, . To un.plement these two recomRacine (Wis.) Ya.c;_ht Club to S~u"gac 1: 1t~
ons ,a:6: dau~e;yot~;~ .mendstions, make Water Street one
•tuck - won by L::le Slay!.Jia ugtt of
Work is progressing a t the D•)ugand Mrs. Jack Simmons , Douglas; way south, frand Butler Street one
t h e Singapore Club , which was th.en las E lem entary School addition until
Beverly ButJ.er, 16, daughter of Mr. way noI'l!h, om fue _s.toplight (Culretired
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First· visible event was the parade u.t is possi!ble now to name tJ:le comu
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freeway (I- J uh y c
Coc.1tes, 17,d s
a ughter of Mr.
4. Tlrat the Village Board sugof ltlhe Kalamazoo Antique Auto !Re- pletion daite for m any of the sections . .H-'lland-o0 ~n+.~n
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stor ers, •a round the "Loop" of 1lhe Lt is now anticipated fua t the build- l9G) wil:l· be open.e d t•o traffic Friday d o n h ,oates
f , an
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TT"ghway De- Gaug. ter o Mr. and Mr s. William Bus.chell's r ecommend'aitions ,ro hold
Village then into Cook P ark fo be ing whll be completed· and ready for acoordin
"' te ,rn
• k- occupancy Oct. 1.
,p~"l!Inerrt.
Compl,=~•w
..,'.on of the two orz.
court from nine to five daily except
on disp1ay. P rize winners w er,e pie
cw
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I!f al! ,p roceeds as scheduled ~e ,b ridges over tlhe ~alamazoo River
Judges of the contest were Mr. Sunday. Law v.iolaitors brought in
~eek will be on by ~ ugus t 8. Ro?r1!111g near Sa ugatuck m arked l:he com- Tom Sc,hultz, Mr. Wtill'.i am Grotmds after thes e hours would_ ~e r~uired
Thrills in the Skies
JS ex;pected to begin by the rruddle pletion of ,tJhe filnal s ection of the of South Bend and !Mrs. Margaret to post bond or go to Jail until the
Then, a t 12:45 o'clock, cam e one •Jf .tJhis week, wl,t h completio~ set freeway, which is :from a n inter- Gea~hart of Holland . Master of cere- justic e (of pea:e) orders their apof the thrilling s ights of the entire for August 28. Ml3Sonry work will be chan"e at old US-31 s outh of Douglas m oni,es was Ev '.f1homas, ,and organ- pea11ance for ma!.
day - l:h:e "flyover '' of the 172nd fin1i: hed thi,s ~eek.
,t o
inberohiange ne ar Sa,ugatuck. iS t was Amber Rosin. Saugatuck'Ilhe recommendations wild be conTactical Reconnaisance Squadron ,
K<Ltchen e~u1pm ~nt . has been . or- The opening will give Michigan Douglas merchants sponsored the sidened by llhe trustees at a special
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Mi hi
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s tretch of freeway driving from pl'Jzes ,v e wwner.
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It was a 'stirring ,eiHmpse of an im- field will get st al'ted tlhJS week, aJ1 d W.hiJtehalJ, except for four .miles of
.
on .the storm-water dry wells :two-lane roa d noru1
. ..... of M us k egon.
portant part of the"'national
defenses. work
.
Afte r 1 o 'c1ack the -anternoon pro- JS to beglm soon.
~he Muskegon road should be r eady
,g ram in Kalama.zioo Lake and Cook
Some Ready for Opening
by the end of August.
P ark kept crowds of spectators -inMichigan's top pro golfers are Lui'a of Mt. Clemens took the 1962
Ins!iallation of acousticail tile ceilheading for Saugatuck to pllly in toumey. Glen Stum of Cascade
terested as e\·ents arranged by Miss
Arts Show
the Mich!igan PGA and pr o-am tour- Country Club has been second the
l\iiary Newcomb, ch:a:irrnian, of the ings in tlhe existing buildings is to
neys slaited for the course this week. past two years. Bury shot a 139,
Saugatuck Yacht Club wer e put on. be stamed tlris wee<k. Painting work,
The 36-hole Michigan PGA will five under par last season on rounds
:u was a grea.t afternoon of fine en- millwork, and tiile floo11ing will st.art
be held Thursday and Friday over of 70 and 69.
t entainment~ we ll , put together and 1as soon as the roo:lling h:as been
Methodist
completed.
,t he nine-hole Hamilton Lake Golf
-B ig .John Barn.um
three-time
presented.
Classroom furnitune is to be deThe first annuail Church and Fine and Country Club layowt while the PGA winner, is alwa~ one of tbe
mher e wer e the pram and ligh'ting races o:f the Saugatuck Club, a Jdvered August 15. Ther e is a pos- Ants F estival opened Monday at the pro-a m event will be s taged Wednes - pr e-tourney favorites. Again this
year the BJy,lnfi.eld Country Club pro
fine and diversi1iied outdoor art show sibility thaJt four classroom s and the Sauga t uck Meth~st Ch~h. There d!ay.
Pro Bill Hamilton repovt;s about w.ill be in the field of more than 70
from studEnts of the Summer School o.iifice area will be ready for school •a re 40 reproduations of filne master$9,000 in prizes for the two tourna- gu'.liei"S.
of Painting, mouilih,to-mouth resus- opening. If so, r emodeling in e,cist- pieces.
The exhibition, is open daily from m ents wi1lh $6,000 for the PGA and
Barnum finished i!l a ne for sixth
tication demo~ rated by Uep. Sher . ing buildings can continue while
place last yea:r a.fte,• 1,.-dting off to
Rudy Whi tney from Sheri.ff Whlt- school is in session so thaJt ail work 3:00 to 5: 00 and 7:00 ,to 8:30 p .m. ,tlhe rest for the pro-am Wlinners.
comb 's off~ ; which drew great can be completed during September. The public is oordilia.l.ly inv.i,ted to '1'h e pro-am is a speaial tourna- a poor \Start with a i7 on the first
'I1his will make it possilble for a ll look over ll!he display.
anent set up -by Hamiloon. It will be round. He fired a 68 in the seco!'d
crowds; O?en house at the U.S. Burelem
entary
stude
nts
to
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to
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The
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18-hole best ball event and am- round, only one stroke behind Siu .
eau of F)'sh~r.ies. (see separat e
s tory); canoe Jousting lby the Otsego new Dou,gbas Elementary Schooll at Cobi Originals Art Studio of Sauga- aiteurs will pay $100 for the chance art's 67, the best round of ~e tour-tuck.
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to p]ay with the pros.
ney.
Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster L. the same rune.
This is the third straight year :tlhe
Veterans T-ed Kroll and Walter
Sam Morehouse; the specta cular and
EMERGENCIES 'AT HOSPITAL Michig(an PGA haJS been st:aged at B urkemo will be competing in the
thriilling water skhln g of the Charles MACK'S LANDING SUNSHINE
Hammon Lake. P,ar is 72. With the !tournament !I.long with e."•Saugatuck
SLiigh :trJupe of n ationally known SOCIETY GIVEN HONOR
Over l:he Fourth of July weekend nine hole course, Hamilton set up 18 pro Lorin Shook of j.f.11aw.
s kiers, wi~h championShlp perform!Mack's Landing Sunshine Soc- the CommuniJty Hospital took care of tee off:s for the 6,000-plus yard
This is the first time Krol..l is com,ers in number r-; the peddle-boat race
dat;y,
has r eceived honorable m en- 72 various emergency oases , from course. After a golfer completes the peting in a Michigan PGA at Hama nd •tile hydroplru1e demonstrations.
tion fi'om llhe Irrtemail!i.onal Sunsh'ine Frida y night thru Sunday. Dr. Wil- filrst nine holes he plays the same ilton Lake while Burkemo finished
Evening of Spectacmla.rs
Society for ·t ime given for sewing, ilii.am H. Schock was the physioi,an course again only starting each hole •i<>d for thir•! last year Rroll is pro
Three spectaiculavs came lin oroer remembecing the elderly and shut- on call. He was assisted by Dr. K~m- ifrom a different tee off point.
at Frank'lin Hills, form~rly Burke. in :tJhe evening, w.i.t!h a pleasant bit d-ns, and sponsoring a boy to Boy's neth C. Miller and Dr. James D. Dick Bury of Grosse Pointe won mo's home course, while BurlQ!mo
Hayes.
of musical diversion by ithe Cross- State.
,t he state PGA last year and Ben is at the Detroit Golf Club.
From the time of the shrieks and
iscreams o:f ithe jets iin the noon hour
untill. l:h:e last spar ~ of a brilliant
o utburist of fi11ewol'ks faded into the
niJght air , Venice came in many
diorrns t ') Saug,a,t_uck as 1lhe annua l
Venetia n F esth•al set some more
r ecords for tthe books.
L. The amternoon and evening long
program was nOlt only much the best
yet giw:m , 1t also had more features
and was much better presented. Kalamazoo Lake was the arena of water
for l:he continuous show tha,t pleased a cr\:>Wd recokoned as larger
thap last year's 15,000,
'I'he expected influx of young punks
did not m ater.iaB.!i.ze a nd untoward
iricidrmts were at a minimum. Chief
Al W00ds and his m en were on the
a lert and 11aady , and ,the fine handling of traffic did m uch to have an
orderly - and a ppreciated - day
a nd evening.
tl:f
Nancy Fosdick I~
Saugatuck-Douglas
Beauty Queen for '64
Douglas S,choo\ \s
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MICHIGAN PGA TOURNEY THIS WEEK
Church Open Each ·Day At
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Award Winners of
All v·.enet"Ian EVent5
FollCJ1ving are fae pri~e winners
on the afternoon and evening program of the Venetian F estival:
Gold Bowl (Racine y.aicht race)L ~le Slaybaugh on "Lilttle Hafrue."
Saug,atuck Yacht Club 11aces:
U ghtning winner, "IB.3ilia.i Hai, " Skiipper I?ane Corbett. P :rtam winner, "6~ver Srtreak III," Skipper Mark M1tchell.
Antiqu e autos: First, 1927 Packard of Steve Wilson, Kalamazoo;
second, 1911 Owens of El~on Eby,
Kaliamazoo; third, 1941 Lmcoln of
Ly.le Jones, Saugart'Uck.
Peddle boaJt race : fust, Boo
Schoeneich; se:coild,. Bill Fiischer.
Parade Winners ,
.
Venetian Parade: ,first, ''Lov Ya
Honey," O\vned i!J.y Mr. and Mns.
Clyde Bat tjes of Grandville, with the
theme "Champagne Music of Lawrenc-e Welk"
'
Second: "Lillie iHanfrue," owned
by Mr. a nd Mrs. LyJe Slay;baugh of
Cl!imax, Mich. , portraying "Little
~ Mermaid' ' (m odel
wl3S the
Slay- I St. Joseph park crews fought a los,baugh's granddaugh ter ) .
. ing b'aitrt:le to clear the be::i,ches of
Honorable m en tions : " Engeldane," rt:housand,s •Jf dead ab2wives (ailso
mvned by Robent N. Serg ea.nit:, Battle k nown as shad) fish pilin g up on the
Creek ; entered and decora ted b y shores of Lake Michigan.
students of the Summer Sc hool of
Pa'inting; "Joannie J1a,m es," them e
Removed by Truck Loads
.
"Jonah and the Whale," ente.red by
Melvin Bauma n, !Benton Harbor
Batt1e Creek Ba3.t Club; Bol:Joaibalu , l hea lth _officer , ordered two pUKJlic
owned by Bob Wealer.
swunmlD)g ar01s dosed. Bauma n
Orga.Il!izait!i.on entries were, SaLbga- sa id tests w&re being made to detuck, Douglas, Charnlber of Com-,11ermine if the water has ibeen conmerce, Rotary Club.
tammated by the endless flow of the
·- - - 1dead and r o1iti.ng fish.
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Crews removied the shad from lihe
L. Michigan Shores
b eaches by the truck load but fresh
I ~aves of dead fish conti~ued washI mg ashore. Se 3. gu~, :which norm~y
e~
' ew1ves 1y eat the dead f1sh , nested on lS!Dead ·ailewives are in the midst of lands off shore and ignored 1!h!em.
their -die-0:ff and are lilttering the
west coast of Mtchigan. for long
ICE CREAM SOCIAL
stretches. In previous rep.or ts they
w,ere said to be cluttering the beachThe Saugatuck Methodist Church ·
es Ill.'inois iand Wisconsin.
will g,i•ve its annual ice cream soci'al
Condttions off the Sauga·tuck and the old fashioned kind-this 'I1hursDouglas beac-h:es are said not to be day evening at 6 o'clock. They will
as bad as to the scuth. In some east- serve homemade pies and o3.ke, ceild
ern areas of Lake Michigan the dead drinks, coffee and the im'P'Jrtant ice
fish were in windrows.
cream.
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Sedan Two Tone
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2-Dr. Hardtop .
Green oooo•••$ 895
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FEATURED
1954 CEEVROLET Bel
' 55 BUICK Supe r 4-Dr
FOR SALE: Used Mower
BASS
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Sedan Grey. 0$ 795
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New Idea,Used Loaders .1953 OLDSMOBILE 88
'55 BUICK Spe cial 4POU.Y GORDON
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Tone Blue • • $ 575
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
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Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
Description
An account of the resource
Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1910s-2010s
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Various
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Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Douglas (Mich.)
Michigan, Lake
Allegan County (Mich.)
Beaches
Sand dunes
Outdoor recreation
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
English
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-07_SD-BlueTempo_0008
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1964-07-30
Title
A name given to the resource
The Commercial Record - July 30, 1964
Description
An account of the resource
Volume ninety-six and issue thirty-one of the community newspaper, The Commercial Record, serving Saugatuck-Douglas since 1869. The newspaper is dated ast Thursday, July 30, 1964 and has a variety of articles covering the winners of Venetian Events from the Festival of the same name. Events highlighted are related to automobiles and parade winners. Additionally, articles cover an ice cream social, a closing of public swimming pools, as welll as dead alewives littering the shores of Lake Michigan. Additionally, there are a variety of advertisements surrounding the articles, the biggest of which is one for The Blue Tempo. Articles cover the Venetian Festival and growing crowds, the opening of "My Fair Lady" at the Barn Theatre, the near completion of Douglas School, an opening of a Church Arts Show, stringent rules for Labor Day Weekend proposed by citizens, the opening of the I-96 Freeway, as well as the hosting of the Michigan PGA Tourney by the Hamilton Lake Golf Club. The advertisements cover The Blue Tempo Jazz Club, E.R. Launderette, Furniture, and the Forest Grove Mill.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich)
Douglas (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich)
Community newspapers
Gay bars
Summer theater
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the Saugatuck Douglas History Center as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Stories of Summer (project)
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
-
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/5cebb99ba80a1d3d54bedd827a92260a.pdf
7ad40be6f384ed8a57601ec3b74ce3d5
PDF Text
Text
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SAUGATUCK, MICHIGAN, JULY22, 19'76
OUR 109th YEAR
15 Cents
NUMIER THIRTY
·Fire. Marshals Checking Blu~ Tempo Blaze
. Fire which authorities believe was arson swept the
~lue Tempo building just before dawn Friday, destroy.
mg the building which stood on the site of one of
Saugatuck's early lumber mills.
Firemen from Saugatuck and Douglas used 10
hoses in sµbduing the blaze at 349 Culver Street. A
light wino from the north blew embers out onto Kalamazoo Lake and helped keep the blaze from a home
to the east and the Harriss Pie Co. factory and office
to the north and west.
·
. Th~
was repor~d about 5 :3'7 a.m •. Saugatuck
Fue Ch:ef ~ob Jones said people were coming to work
at_ Harr~~s Pie about 5 :3-0 and did not see or smell anything. Then all at-once it wen~ poof, " he said. In a
short time the front ~of the building was enveloped in
flames and firemen worked at smashing ~own the fue
there to keep it away from the pie plant across the •
street. ~e~ were. hampered in spraying the east side
of the buildmg by a fallen electrical wire until Consumers Power arrive d to shut it off. After . the front
fell in on itself, fuemen conce ntrated on the sides of
the long building. Two Saugatuc k trucks were used
and the new _Douglas truck was called when; after the fire was more or less under control, a wrong valve .
was turned and some of Saugatuck's hoses were out ot
water for a few minutes. The fue was quenched by
7 a .m.
Fire marshals from the Paw Paw Post: of the State
fir:
•
1
r
l~ .
s.::. µ.;;;.:. ~ ::.,. ~
..
Holland crime laboratory• to determine i f ;my accclerant was used. Al Hu~1es 0 pm~ of the investigacors,
said that even with~t r,pe results fr om the s~mples,
they believed it. was arson because of the__ qU1ckness
with which it started aw:l the way it burned. ..
.
· Chief Jones said that electricity and ga s~yi.~e to
Fire~en
left and rif}lt spray water .on the blazing facade of the Blue Tempo,
the building had been turried off.
·· . · , · . •
Toe building was owned by Robert Meyer of
.
Chicago, according to the villag c~erk's office. _until
last year it had h6used the Blue Tempo Lounge, h~
•
· Gary Giocomo i s directe!: and chaeographer of
censed by Don Davis of Allegan. The lounge.featur~d
The Red B·. qn TI,teatre will 'n Tuesday, July M
the
company. Giocomo has just received the Joseph
live music for a number of years., 1:1 the e8!1Y 1960 S
·ptes_e nting all T.QJ!~i~a;,l extravaganzas this season.
Jefferson award as Best Ch:oreo.grapher for 1974 - '7S
it became re gard~d as a _g athering place for homosex..,
"Showtime' , direct from a 11 month run atln•
season and received a Jeff nomination far the best
uals'. In the late 1960's pllt~ \'{ere announced b;.y .
.
the-Round Dinnei; Th~~tre in Chi go will. play
actor. Musical direct<!r is Daryl Wagner.
G.E.K. Enterprise%., a previous ~vner, for a n_auncal
ttjrough August 8 in~~llding Sund_ay .
• The Red Barn Theall:e is under all new maoa~...
"Dames at $~ 11 wjll run fron: Aug. 10 to 22;
store there·in c njunctibn ,qith marina expans101:5
ment.
Curtain is at 8:30 Tuesday through Saturday,
"The Julie Wilson Show" Aug. 24 to Sept. 5.
a1on g th- 'or· tidli.
., .· e· of tl1e•-lal<e.. These plar1.s d1d _nq,t
'1:30
Sunday
evenings, and cl0$e<\ on Mondays.
The
.professional
Equity
corn
any
includes
eight
materialize . · .·
··
,
• ,.
• • Pho!le 857-2105 for reservations and information.
· Early this yrl,ar Da,vis wa~ fined_ $600 by the state _
ac'tors who have' been seen in the top theatres, ballet
Liquor c: 0111:rol comm.,i.ssion, according t? Roger Rosen
companies and opera companies ound the country.
Ja L1.:, Jc pu ty di.J;ector for ')..icensing afd enf~cemejlt.'
. The char ~L'S ,-:er~ se~lir'tg o~ transferrrng an interest lil _
·a license aud obtaimng a license for the .use_and be~
fi t 0 f pcrs_ons not on the licemse, charges which Davis
sa id l"ri day were false. The Blue T~~po was closed .
by that time and the Liq1,1or CoI,11nnss10? o:de,red Davis
to ge t rid of the license by May 1, ~ccord1~g to R?sel_l; _ _
da 1c '" ho · aid that transfer of the ~c.e nse 1s pendrng -~ -· •
to T~mJohnsQn of Coral-Gables. Davis sa1d he too~ a
$17, ooo loss by having to get rid of hi~ Uce·nse "b~t at _
least the queers didn't get it. "
· ··
·
: ...'.' . ;
In recent weeks the basement of th~ bui~ding·
'
·h oused the Game Room with machines owned by
Ch-arles Miller of Dou glas.
.
,
The approximate site of the Blue Tempo was ll d
before 1860 by the o. R. Johnson CompanJ for a large
!Umber mill. Later the mill and yard were sold to .
Griffin and Henry. After the mill was dismantled Just
be fore the turn of tl1e century, the land was use~ for
a lumber yard and an ice house erected on the site.,
Some time after 1925 Louis Buerhle erected Buerhle s,
a series of lodging places with a road froI? Culver St.
nearly to the wat.er; many have called this arrangement saugatuck's first motel. There was also a popular tavern on the premises.
In the early 1940's the buildings were purchased
by ·Ed and Marion Demeter who ran the Ed-Mar Resort. By 1960 the Blue Tempo Bar was built on the .
lower level. The upper level has been used for a vanover the uophies that will be awas:ded to the M arina 's
e ty of businesses. In 1966 the property was bought by
Carolyn and Bob Henke, skipper of the "Spirit of
beauty contest winners and 1he best deccrated boats
John cole who planned with a major oil company to
76 ",start decorating fa: the "Spirito '76" Venetian
are Lynn Wrign.1.•~nd Val Mcintyre .
build a series of shops a nd eating places in the maze
Festival to ·be held the last weekend i Joly. Looking .
of old buildin gs , and a marina i n Lake Kalamazoo,
but the plans were never realized.
at
-:R~d~. Barn Oprns Tue~d_ay
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
Description
An account of the resource
Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1910s-2010s
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Various
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Douglas (Mich.)
Michigan, Lake
Allegan County (Mich.)
Beaches
Sand dunes
Outdoor recreation
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
English
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-07_SD-BlueTempo_0014
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1976-07-22
Title
A name given to the resource
The Commercial Record - July 22, 1976
Description
An account of the resource
Issue number thirty of community newspaper, The Commercial Record, dated July 22, 1976 and written in its 109th year of serving the Saugatuck-Douglas community. The front page features an article on the devastating fire which broke out at The Blue Tempo, along with a brief history of the local landmark, and news of the Red Barn Theatre reopening. The newpaper has become discolored from age and there appears to be water damage.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich)
Douglas (Mich.)
Allegan County (Mich)
Community newspapers
Gay bars
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the Saugatuck Douglas History Center as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Stories of Summer (project)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
-
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dd14e621b1ac9bdd5896f6af7a8ba0d8.pdf
7cfb3dc1ed55e6a7335bc537aa0b90b9
PDF Text
Text
i
OF SA ,UGAT UC1 ·
1
PRESENTS .
A TOUCH OF CHICAGO'S
''OLD TOWN''
.,
EVERY WE ,E:KEI .D FRI. - SAT. - SUI.
THE VERY
FINEST
.BOB
SNYDER
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IN THE
COUNTRY
GAY
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DRUMS
BOB
~., .,_~.,
NELSON
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Plus · G,UEST STA RS
JAM SESSION EVERY SUNDAY
CALL 857-2629
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Title
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Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
Description
An account of the resource
Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1910s-2010s
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Various
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Douglas (Mich.)
Michigan, Lake
Allegan County (Mich.)
Beaches
Sand dunes
Outdoor recreation
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
English
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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DC-07_SD-BlueTempo_0005
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1960
Title
A name given to the resource
The Blue Tempo Presents "Old Town"
Description
An account of the resource
Jazz poster for A Touch of Chicago's "Old Town" performed every weekend at The Blue Tempo in Saugatuck, Michigan. The advertisement mentions a jam session every Sunday and there is a phone number listed at the bottom which says "Call 857-2629." Circa the 1960s.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich)
Allegan County (Mich)
Advertising fliers
Gay bars
Gay culture
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the Saugatuck Douglas History Center as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Stories of Summer (project)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Text
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
-
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/fd267052c2cb713a6b743b418b87c6e3.pdf
3b6c2912c40aa2f0cc9731096d372768
PDF Text
Text
SAY
YOU SAW IT IN AL1BGAN
FLASlD!'S
,·THE BLUE TEMPO
SAUGATUCK
'
OPEN
I
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TUES., WED., THURS. 7:00 p.m. til 2:00
FRI.? SAT•1·SUN.
12:00 Noon til 2:00 p.m.
·
RAY MURPHY'S
JAZZ GROUP
.Modern Jazz
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Dancin2 ..
.EVERY .SAlURDAY
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Summers in Saugatuck-Douglas Collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Grand Valley State University. Kutsche Office of Local History
Description
An account of the resource
Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
1910s-2010s
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Various
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/">Copyright Undetermined</a>
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich.)
Douglas (Mich.)
Michigan, Lake
Allegan County (Mich.)
Beaches
Sand dunes
Outdoor recreation
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan
Contributor
An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource
Saugatuck-Douglas History Center
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
Stories of Summer (Common Heritage project)
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpeg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
English
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
2018
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
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Identifier
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DC-07_SD-BlueTempo_0012
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1960-09-29
Title
A name given to the resource
The Blue Tempo Newspaper Advertisement
Description
An account of the resource
Newspaper advertisement for The Blue Tempo Jazz Club in Saugatuck, Michigan. It also features Ray Murphy's Jazz Group whose modern jazz and dancing takes place every Saturday night and country music featuring Glenn Owens of Allegan every Friday and Sunday night.
Subject
The topic of the resource
Michigan
Saugatuck (Mich)
Allegan County (Mich)
Advertising fliers
Gay bars
Gay culture
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Digital file contributed by the Saugatuck Douglas History Center as part of the Stories of Summer project.
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
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Anne Corlett interviewed by Sharon Bower
June 4, 2018
SB: Hi, this is Sharon Bower and we're interviewing Anne Corlett. Anne, tell me, when was the
first time you came to Saugatuck?
AC: Probably as a baby, because my grandparents came as children separately. And then my
father grew up coming every summer and my grandparents owned a big old farmhouse. So, we
would come every summer from long before I was born.
SB: When’s the first, what’s the first memory?
AC: I was born in 60, I would say probably. I remember Easters. I know it's not summer, but we
would come up for Easter. My grandparents would put on a big Easter weekend. We'd all fit.
They had four children. They were 14 grandchildren. We all fit in that big farmhouse. And I
remember walking on the frozen lake and, you know, Easter egg hunts and that.
AC: But the summer, you know, they're all summers blended together. As you know, most of the
days are on the beach. I probably I remember. I remember my sixth birthday. That might be one
of the earliest. That's August 1st. McVeigh's Store was down... So we're on Lake Shore Drive,
about a quarter mile north of Center Street. And McVeigh's Store was just that much further
down. And I was old enough to walk by myself. And back then they had a post office. So, on my
sixth birthday, I went to see if I got any mail, which I didn't. But I always kind of found some
change around, you know, a nickel or a quarter or some pennies. And so, there was penny candy.
So, it's always worth. That's a big memory. But all those beach days all meld together.
SB: And, what do you remember about the area so much? I mean, was it just the water, the
beach, the shops? I mean, it's changed a lot now.
AC: Oh, we almost never we almost never went downtown sometimes maybe for ice cream at
Around the Corner. I think that was there. That... what's now Kilwin's was a big store that sold
like fabric and thread. I'm sure it sold a lot more. But as a little kid, I'd go with my older sisters
who were loved to sew and we'd go to that big, huge building on that corner of. It's like kitty
corner from the. From the ...
SB: Drug store?
AC: Yes, we are all....
SB: The drug store, wasn't there?
AC: No, it was there. I just don't remember it being much of anything.
SB: Did you go to church at any of the churches here?
AC: No, no. I'm a pagan. [Laughs]
�SB: Grandma? Family.
AC: My grandmother. No. I don't remember them going to church. But. But I do. I'll tell you
what. The Chain Ferry was a big event and I had older cousins and we would walk across the
golf course, West Shore. It would take a long time, walk to The Chain Ferry and get into town
that way. That was a whole day activity. And back then, right at the Chain Ferry where Wick's
Park is now, there was a putt-putt course and I loved it. So, you know, you'd save up your
money. You go with your older cousins, take the Chain Ferry, play putt-putt, get ice cream and
go home.
SB: What age do you think I was?
AC: Probably anywhere between ten and fifteen. Sixteen.
SB: So, what years?
AC: So, that would be 1970-76, I would say. Yeah. So, downtown was pretty sleepy. If it was a
beautiful beach day, nobody was downtown and we were lucky.
AC: We had our own beach so we would walk down. You know, big memory is just going to the
beach and spending most of the day, like I would wake up, put on my bathing suit, have
breakfast and go to the beach and spend all day come up, you know, climb trees, find cousins,
because by then we had several houses and so different cousins would come. My grandparents
built one. Sold it. Bought this big old farmhouse. That's before I was born. CAPTA bought a
different house. My grandmother's parents had built a house across the street. Those are all still
in our family now. So now we're fourth. Well, I would be third generation, but we all have kids.
So, there's four generations that are using that still, same property.
SB: Where were you grandparents from?
AC: Super cool. They're both from Oak Park, Illinois. They used to take the steam steamship
across in the summer. My grandfather would come and camp on the property that my
grandmother's parents eventually bought and built on. And that property was super cheap. I bet
they well, relative to other property of the time because he couldn't grow anything on it. It was
right on the beach. Nobody wanted. Isn't it crazy? And so that was probably in 1910, or
something that they bought it. That was right across it. We still own it. It's still in my greater
family as I said.
5:04
AC: Now there's 14 owners of because it's my generation.
SB: And where were you living at the time?
�AC: We were also a suburb of Chicago, River Forest. Well, my grandparents were River Forest
too. And I say, Oak Park over. We would drive over. Mom would fill this station wagon. We'd
pack in. She was very relaxed. There were six of us. We'd pack in pillowcases and our
pillowcase would be our pillow for the ride up. I don't remember because 196 wasn't built then.
At a certain point, you'd be driving probably what's now Blue Star. And you'd see as soon as you
saw sand dunes, you'd be like, "Ugh, really close." But it would still be 40 minutes. There's
probably like a four hour drive or more from Chicago.
SB: Did your cottage have indoor plumbing?
AC: Yes. Not when they bought it. They bought it. It used to be like a B&B, which back then.
What's it called? Boarding house. When they bought it, it had an outhouse. They changed that
into like an ice shed. And then they tried to run it as a boarding house. So, they made a his and
hers bathroom out of one of the bedrooms, which were still there until the farmhouse, which is
what we call it, had a big fire in the 90s. And then we had to remodel, which was nice. But
anyway, but yes, there was indoor plumbing in this, you know, by the 60s for sure.
SB: And what did you do in the evenings?
AC: Games, cards, Scrabble. So, because cousins were often around, my sisters are enough older
where I didn't really hang out. But I would go to my cousin's cottage or we'd drift around. So, my
parents felt like it was super safe, and it was. And so, we'd drift, you know, from at least the age
of 12, I could drift in the evening even and go see what the other Corletts were doing. And they
might be playing charades or some other game, multigenerational games all the time.
AC: Occasionally, and then every once in a while, my mom, who was a big party giver, would
have like about once a year she'd have an art auction and she'd invite anyone who wanted to
come in the neighborhood. And it was for dinner and your ticket to dinner was a piece of art you
made. And usually, you know, it's all ages. So, it just be anything. It was a clothesline art show
and then they'd had that hung clothesline in the dining room. They'd hang them all up and she'd
make a big part of chili or something. And then we'd have an art auction, a penny auction at
night. You know, that was great.
SB: Did you contribute art?
AC: Always, sure. I've always done. Ah, I'm a painter.
SB: I know you were. What ways did you start?
AC: Well, I would. Oh, well, we were always doing projects and stuff. I don't think I took art
seriously probably until high school, till I was 15, maybe.
SB: Did you paint while you were here during the summer?
AC: Not till college. Not until... which is still the 70s. I went to college in 78. So yeah, I would
watercolor all the time. My grandmother, that's Helen Corlett, was a water colorist. She used to
�go to Oxbow all the time. Occasionally, I think probably twice in my life, I took a class at
Oxbow as a young person, younger than teenager, like eight or nine, once or twice, maybe 10.
SB: What was Oxbow like then?
AC: Oh, it's just really just like a quiet, sleepy little, you know, that old fart, you know, the old
Singapore hotel or whatever that is that, of course, that was there with its cricketing floor.
So that hasn't changed. And they had little workshops and those little buildings. I think I did
ceramic. I do remember doing ceramics one time. I was pretty young, though. I don't remember a
whole lot. You know, it wasn't till I was an adult where till I took another class in 2000.
SB: But you had to drive up there now?
AC: Yes. Yes, we drove. So, my grandparents used to sail here. We always drove. We would
come because it was my grandparents’ house. We we'd get three weeks in the summer, so we'd
come for three full weeks. My dad would come up on the weekends and then right around when I
was in high school, so in the mid 70s, maybe even early 70s, my grandpa bought another house
and things happened so that we could be up there longer. And they moved to this little cottage
behind that eventually became my mom's.
AC: So, we would have three full weeks. It was just heaven. And then later we'd have most of
the summer come up. Venetian Night was the height of every summer.
AC: Oh, when I was another birthday memory and I might have been turning six. And my mom.
I might have been five though, because I remember my sister gave me a purse full of candy.
Best present ever. But that year we had all my cousins, different cousins on my mom's side who
would go to South Haven in the summer. Just totally a different nut, you know, and my mom's
side anyway.
10:06
AC: And they all came for my birthday party. And then mom said, "Honey, I've arranged some
fireworks for your birthday." And it was Venetian Night, because my birthday was so close. She
just pretended that was my birthday. So, of course, that's why I think I have a real healthy selfconfidence.
SB: You thought the fireworks were for you?
AC: Yes, I did. I really did, so I had to be only like five.
AC: But we would go to the yacht club. My grandfather Corlett, Webster, was one of the very
first members there.
SB: And it’s the same location?
�AC: Same location. You know, recently it's been built up, but it was just like this sleepy little
cottage. It was great. And we would just go, you know, we'd lined the docks to watch the
fireworks. It's huge. Back then, there was not a Fourth of July fireworks, much less, you know,
New Year's Eve. It was just a Venetian Night and the parade of boats. You know, as a kid, I
would hear while my parents were having.
AC: So, the big thing is on the weekends during the week, there was no schedule. We floated
around the house. It was just great on the weekends, a little more of a schedule because my dad
was in town and there was always a major cocktail hour. And the kids. You know, I don't know
what I did except listen to the dirty jokes. as they kind of got a little buzzed.
AC: You know, all the stories on there were always stories like of like of the wild downtown,
especially in Venetian Night. You know, we were supposed to stay away because the bikers were
coming in town. And I do remember motorcycle, you know, tons of motorcycles parked in front
of The Sandbar.
SB: But you didn't go downtown?
AC: I… Not... Not when...
SB: Bikers?
AC: No, no. I mean, not really. I couldn't. I was too young. You know, if we're talking 60s and
70s. By the 70s, I suppose I... but I didn't really spend... You know, evenings in the summer, we
would go to the beach. And when I was old enough, go to beach fires. And back then, you kind
of you could have a beach fire, or you could just look either way down the beach and say, "Huh?
Are they having a beach fire there? Is there one in Shorewood, you know." Then we walked out.
AC: Are we covering all the questions? Now, I know you're doing great.
SB: You're fine, fine.
AC: OK. All right. So, when I got older, so I was so like I would say by 73, when I was 13, I
also was friends with other people on the lakeshore, the O'Donnells, or, you know, like 10 kids,
the two oldest were my age. Chris O'Donnell, you know, the actor, one of them, but he was a
baby then. The Quirks were across the street. There were you know, so there were all these
people. We kind of had a gang my age that did the whole beach fire circuit.
AC: So, you'd if maybe we would have it on my beach. It was usually my older cousins who
would do it, or you'd walk down there might be one five houses down. There might be, north of
us is Shorewood. That was always a huge gang. Some of those people became lifelong friends
and, you know, like Tag Werneck, lifelong friend from beach fires. There's something about it.
And so, we'd go down and there was always beer, but...
SB: So, someone would build a fire on the beach?
�AC: Yes. And I remember foraging for wood on the beach for beach fires people and bring logs
down from their house. There was wood or you'd pick the dry beach grass and you'd you know,
that was a big adventure. You learn to go to the bathroom in the beach grass, really young
because you don't wanna go back up to the house.
SB: All the way up there?
AC: Yeah.
SB: Because it was a hill, right?
AC: Yes. Lots of steps.
SB: Yep.
AC: So, evenings were pretty much fun. And there was beer. You know, I was pretty careful till
about well, maybe when I was 15, maybe 16. I'd have one beer, whatever. I got caught once and
a lot of trouble. I was grounded for two weeks in the summer.
SB: Your parents caught you?
AC: Yeah. I came in and my mom's like… You I actually I had snuck out and it came back and
she came up to my bed and I was like pretending I was asleep. She's like, "This is your ticket
back to River Forest." But I knew she was faking. She didn't want to go back. But I was
grounded for two weeks.
SB: And it was that mean you had to stay in the house?
AC: I couldn't go out at night. So, my friends, my cousins, they come by, they report. They go
out. They come back. They report. It was kind of fun, actually. I wouldn't tell my mom that.
SB: Did you ever go to Douglas at all?
AC: Douglas was... There was a little grocery for a while. You know, I think that was Terry
Byrne's father. But that's when I was really young. The Newsstand was always there and the post
office. And that's all I remember about Douglas. The library back then, the library was
downtown Saugatuck on Butler Street.
AC: And one of my mom's really good friends was Bill Allen. He was a newscaster for WOOD
TV-8, and they had been family friends, so she'd known him since a kid.
15:00
AC: And he lived. They lived on Campbell Road, which, you know, backs... It was pretty close
to us. You could cut across a golf course or whatever. And why did I bring him up? Why did you
just ask me about? Oh, no. Oh, no. I thought of the library. He was somebody was instrumental
�in getting that library together. So, I think it came together in the 60s because I kind of remember
that it was Brandon...
SB: Where was it at in Saugatuck?
AC: It was on Butler Street, like where... Just down from Landshark's. Like where it is where it
is. It later became The Newsstand. I remember when The Newsstand was there. No. Yeah. Right
now it's like American Spoon, or something.
SB: Yes.
AC: Yes. That was a library.
SB: A one-story?
AC: Yes, just one story.
AC: I remember going with my cousin, Steph Higgins. She was a huge reader, four years older,
loved her death, followed her everywhere and she went to the library. She took me there once
and I had never been. And she knew where every book was. She was such a voracious reader.
So, I would go to. And so that was very much fun. But I would go down to her cottage across the
street, which was musty, musty, musty. And they had paperbacks like... That was another thing.
Tons of reading. And they had paperbacks lining their bookshelves. And she had read every
single one, like at least twice. And so, you'd pull out one, you know, it was like a great little
secret.
AC: Also, they had a huge collection of Archie comics, like they had the biggest. So, we'd sit on
the porch and read Archie comics. And, you know, it was you could see the lake from their
cottage. So, the breeze would come in. You'd be reaching, reaching Archie comics.
SB: Did you like Veronica or Betty?
AC: Of course, Betty. Veronica was a bitch and Archie was kind of a dweeb that couldn't like
Reggie. Reggie was a jerk. Remember Archie? Wasn't it great?
SB: Yes, I do remember them.
AC: And then the neighbor next to them on the beach, Debbie Quirk. She was... She had two
older sisters. And she she was kind of advanced. She was the first one that got me a beer, you
know. And she they had love comics. So, you know, with a big tears, you know. I mean, it's very
funny now thinking about like I was like, "Love comics, sort of dicey, you know, compared to
Archie." [Chuckles]
AC: And then Aunt Peg Higgins', who had been a Corlett who married a Higgins. There's a lot
of double marriages in my family. But anyway, two Corletts married two Burmans. Two Corletts
married Higgins. Cousins married brothers.
�AC: But anyway, Aunt Peg. May she rest in peace. She just died last year. She she was an artist
and she had art projects going all the time. So, I would go there and do whatever project they
were doing. They were always different, all kinds. We would go we would also go to the beach
and a bunch of us would play Star Trek on the beach. I was young, so I had to be the guy with
the accent. I couldn't be Spock or, you know, I can't remember his name, not what's supposed to
be.
SB: How did you play Star Trek?
AC: I don't know. We ran around and we'd hide behind Lost Rock and so... Lost Rock, do you
know where that is? That's like south of our property. That was a big thing. Walk to Lost Rock
and back. You could get you… Sometimes we would dig clay out of the bank there and bring it
back and make like clay stuff on the beach.
AC: What else? The rock that's at Douglas Public Beach, which we called Buffalo Rock. It's
actually a little off of Douglas Public, but we would go there and get washed off by the waves.
There was one rock and I found out recently that was way out in the water. But we called it
Moby Dick. That was at our beach that we would find every summer. In fact, I would kiss it
before I went home.
SB: It's still there?
AC: Yeah, I just found it not that long ago. We swam and swam and swam.
SB: But that that rock was out of the water?
AC: It was never out of the water.
SB: OK, so you kissed it in the water?
AC: Yes. Yeah. Oh, Daddy kissed. Yes. But it was so big. Even you know how the water
changes so much. But you could find it every year. My cousins had a giant intertube. We spent
hours on that in the water.
SB: Then there wasn't any concession stand there or anything like there?
AC: No.
SB: It was just beach and people's property?
AC: Right. Right.
SB: Was there Oval Beach there?
�AC: Oval Beach. We never... Well, we would walk down and as kids were, you know, the big
thing would be walked to the lighthouse and back. And I remember when. We were walking
down my cousin Mary and I, but we were 14, so that's being the 74. And we were walk into the
lighthouse and back. And we're just walking. And Mary's like, “Anne, Anne, I think I see a
naked man swimming."
AC: And I'm like, "No, no, no."
AC: And she goes, "Yes!" And then we're walking along. And there was a sand sculpture of a
penis. [Both laugh]
SB: Oh, jeez.
AC: So, she's like, "I think that's a penis."
AC: I was like, "No, it isn't." She was a year younger than me. She was always freaking out.
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AC: "Come on. I don't think we should go. I don't think we should." And we went and we just
kept walking. And most most of the men in there were in the beach grass and stuff. But there
were I think there were some naked men swimming, but it was nothing. She was a little more
shocked. than I was.
AC: We go to the lighthouse, which, you know, isn't really a lighthouse. It's just that thing that's
still the same.
SB: The big lighthouse wasn't there?
AC: Right. I don't know if it's the same, but it was just like a thing on the end of the pier there.
And we come back and there was a man taking money. But you could always walk by because
it's legal to walk by. But we came back and she told her mom and the police came to talk to us
about it. “What'd you see?”
AC: Because her mom, her mother was really a prude. She was really freaked out.
SB: If you had... Were you cognizant of the gay community being here at all?
AC: Not in here at all. Oh, yes. But not… not that whole beach. And and honestly, I can say this,
maybe this because I'm an adult and I don't have a problem with anybody doing that, but or being
gay or anything else like that. But I don't remember it bothering me, really. At all, because we
still would do the whole walk. But Mary, it did freak out, Mary.
AC: But I do remember. OK. Back to when we would sit on the front porch, I would sit and
listen into, you know, these conversations as the adults. And I had adult sisters who who were
married, you know, when I was very young. So, all our weddings, almost all six weddings were
�up here in the summer or the spring. Not all of them, but I'd say four out of six at least. I
remember the story of my dad and one or two of my brother-in-law's going to The Blue Tempo
just to see if it was really gay and it was.
SB: Where was the Blue Tempo?
AC: The Blue Tempo was... And so that was the big talk. There's a gay bar. The Blue Tempo
was... as you come into Saugatuck on I guess it's Culver now. It was on the left on the river. It
was kind of you had to kind of go down. There was a sign. Blue Tempo. And I think it was
where those were the condos are now. I'm not exactly sure. And so so ever after that, it's like, oh,
The Blue Tempo isn't a myth. It really is gay. Now, that story could have been just a story
because they were always laughing. But that's the only...
SB: It was a wild town in those days, was it not?
AC: Very wild. Yeah. That's why we weren't allowed to go in town, especially Venetian
weekend. That was like. Up for grabs. Very well. Now, when I was older, I went to college in the
fall of 78 in Wisconsin.
AC: And then in the summer of 79, I worked at Coral Gables, which is funny because everybody
who ever summer-ed here worked at Coral Gables, you know, and I.
SB: As a waitress?
AC: No. Yes. But it was just in The Galley. The Galley was a breakfast place where The Corner
Bar is now, OK. And I worked with... I just talked to this woman who lives here, who grew up
here. Maria Dross. Yes. She. She and I worked together there. And she remember the names of
everybody.
AC: I remember Bob Berger was the manager. Like Mike Johnson, who is older than I am.
But he wasn't really in charge. His dad was still alive. And I think his brother was still alive, too.
And but Bob Berger was managing and he had kind of come in and sort of scare us, you know,
with his big size, a big voice. But Murt made donuts every morning and we'd have Frank
Dennison and a couple other guys would come in every morning and have their coffee and
donuts. And you just hoped you waited on them because you usually get a really good tip. But,
you know, I was just 19.
SB: And this was just a part time job or-?
AC: This was a summer job in between in college.
SB: Every day or just part time?
AC: I can't remember. Probably. Yeah. But I mean, it was a breakfast lunch place, so I never. So
it was probably part time, yeah. Yeah. My dad never wanted us to work at night downtown in the
�restaurants. He's like, absolutely not. But then I got to be friends with the people who worked
there.
AC: So then even though I was... So, it was legal to drink when you were 18 in Michigan, when
I was 18, but when I was 19, it changed to 21. So, I couldn't. But I was used to it because I was
in Wisconsin and you could drink. So, my friends who worked there would get me into The
Crone stuff. They weren't so tough with ages back then, but sometimes I'd go to a party. The
guys who worked there used to live in apartments under what is now The Annex. Occasionally I
go to a party there, you know, get in trouble because I come home late smelling like beer.
SB: Did you walk home or did you go?
AC: I had a bicycle. I rode my bike every day to work.
SB: Oh, wow.
AC: From the farmhouse to Coral Gables is, you know, four miles.
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AC: Not that much. Five me. Oh, no. Two and a half or three.
SB: You have to go down Blue Star, though, right?
AC: Yeah. You were down Blue Star. That whole summer, there was a bird that went after my
head for the hair, I think, right going over the bridge. Every time it was free, I finally learned to
wear a hat because back then, nobody wore helmets. Yeah, so. So, by the time I was a teenager, I
was spending time downtown. So, that's in the 70s.
SB: And what do you remember about the Saugatuck downtown, then? Was it mostly
restaurants, shops? You know, there were some shops. Ice cream stores, or what?
AC: The only real, you know, the first like real store was East of the Sun, which was on the
corner there, kind of right across from Land Sharks. I forget what's there now. And then across
from that was Sue... Oh, you know her. She died young, unfortunately. She was a great golfer.
Sue Lewis, Sue and Stubbe Lewis owned East of the Sun. And then they started across the street
the like real preppy clothing store, Brigadoon. And those were all those stores.
AC: Oh, and The London Shop. Those are the only clothing stores. So do you remember The
London Shop? All those old ladies who weren't that old, but they look so old to me. They were
the reading glasses on, fancy little stuff, you know, necklace around there. And there were two.
In my view, little old ladies, and they had, you know, like really traditional classic clothing. It
was called The London Shop, and it was kind of probably where the oh, The Butler isn't there
anymore. You know, For the Love of Shoes, where The Butler used to be. It was right in that
first block. And we would go there. Mom would drag me there because she wanted to go and
only because it wasn't my clothes. It was mostly adults, but they were there a long time and they
�were the only. They were the original clothing store in my memory. And then he's then
Brigadoon came later. And also, there was a needlework needlepoint shop next to that, I kind of
remember.
SB: Restaurants? Did you go to any restaurants?
AC: Well, The Butler was always there. And same with Coral Gables. But we never went out.
But what you want to know where we would go? Oh, The Red Barn. Love The Red Barn. We
went as kids. My grandmother went to every show and she would take us as kids out...
SB: Now, these were plays they did?
AC: Yeah, the plays at The Red Barn.
SB: The one that's still there?
AC: Yes.
SB: By the Belvedere?
AC: Yes. And they were top notch. You know, it's they were nearly as good as Mason Street is
now because they had someone's gonna know the name of the guy from New York City who
brought the New York cast over. And he did. I'll never forget Man of Lamancha. And I think I
was about 14, you know, to be like 73 or 4 or 5. And I went twice and it just, you know,
drowning in my own tears. It was so good.
AC: But those show and there'd be a couple locals. And then Bert Tillstrom, the puppet guy. He
always had Saturday afternoon things. We spent a lot of time at The Red Barn. And it was as a
treat. If my grandmother took us, we'd go to The Elbowroom first. So that's where that was a
restaurant back then. And that's where The Southerner is now.
SB: Yes.
AC: Yes. Right. It was The Elbowroom.
SB: And then it was The Elbowroom again, but long after.
AC: But way back in the 70s. Elbowroom. And I always ordered spaghetti because my mom
never made noodles. But anyway, so we'd go to that. And I don't think they served alcohol,
which so we'd be like if my grandmother took the grandkids, we'd go there and then we'd go to
the show. And she always had lifesavers she'd passes and then there'd be an intermission and
you'd go to. And that it was the same, of course, old building. It really hasn't changed much. And
you go downstairs and they'd serve. Somebody made a cake. And, you know, there was kind of a
concession.
SB: There wasn't, they didn't have any air conditioner, right?
�AC: No, fans. Seems like someone's word as hard as they are.
SB: No. No. Because you didn't have... did you have air conditioning in your cottage?
AC: No, still don't. This one I don’t get. We spent so much time on the front porch, which wraps
around. It makes an L. And this is what always surprises me about new houses. Now that they
don't have screened in porches, you know, you see these big, beautiful houses. My opinion, too
big, but don't quote me, without a screened in porch. We spent so much time on the porches
because that's where you get the breeze. You get wet from the lake. And then you'd sit in the
breeze, you know, did a lot of climbing of trees, too, in a wet bathing suit.
SB: What have you seen in terms of the changes here? Good and bad.
AC: I felt very sad. And I remember my dad was just so sad when the first big condo thing went
up. And I feel like the one...
SB: Which one was that?
AC: Well, I feel like it was the one right as you're first going into Saugatuck. I'm not sure that
was the very first, but that was a first really big one.
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AC: Oh, you know, Tara was a place we went to dinner, so that wasn't in Saugatuck, but it was
over... Right here on Center and Bluestar.
SB: Yes.
AC: Yeah. It was up. It's so funny because there's so many condos there now. It was just one
restaurant on the top of a hill, you know. And we went there all the time at both my
grandmothers. My mom's parents also live. They ended up retiring up here, down by the wash
out. Really close to Lake Shore Resort. Anyway, so, both sets of grandparents were around,
which was lovely for me. But the The Tara, we went to with some frequency.
SB: And your dad was upset about the condo because lost its charm?
AC: It just made him sad. Right. It lost its charm. So, I think. And I'm sure there was some Tshirt shops. I don't really remember. I mean, we didn't shop the way people shop. Now, if you
needed a pair of flip flops, which actually I don't think they were invented then, anyways. You
know, something like that. Oh, we did Mount Baldy all the time.
SB: Were there steps up to Mount Baldy?
AC: Yes, there were steps.
�SB: But at what age would you say this would be?
AC: All through the 60s and 70s. We did. We'd go, we'd either we'd walk there, or we'd get
driven and dropped off and we'd go up and down and we'd go up the stairs and run down the
side, which you can still do. And there used to be a route rope swing on the other side. And I was
never big enough to do that by the time it came down. But all my older cousins and siblings did.
And then we go up and down and up and down. And then the last time we went up, we'd run
down to the Oval and walk home on the beach. So that was great. We also toboggan it in the
winter.
SB: Oh, wow.
AC: Scary.
SB: From… From the top? Where Mount Baldy is?
AC: From the top. Yeah. The top on Mount Baldy down the back. Actually, I did that with a
boyfriend and that would be in 79 or so. Yeah. I'm glad I'm alive. That was something.
SB: Do you remember how many steps it was in those days?
AC: Well, it was the same steps that were here. You know, they rebuilt these not that long ago.
But no, I have no idea. Numbers and I just don't... I can't remember any numbers.
SB: Besides the condos, what other changes do you see? That you think were good or bad?
AC: Let me just tell you about my family. It's a great story about my grandmother. Her husband,
and they weren't married, so she was staying in the house. They ended up buying. They were
residents of this boarding house. My grandfather, they were teenagers in like 15. And she told
me this story after I got in trouble for sneaking out, which was really sweet. He came, threw
stones on her window. They had they had a picnic breakfast. It was like before the sun rose and
she snuck out and they went to Mount Baldy and climbed it to watch the sunrise. And there were
no stairs then. But that would be like they were probably married in 1915.So that would be
before 1912, or something.
SB: She had to sneak out, though?
AC: She had to sneak out too. So that was nice that she told me. That's true. I don't think they
were drinking beer but. OK, let me see.
SB: Did you have a boat or anything?
AC: Yes, we had a boat. We still have it. It's a 1964 Boston Whaler. So, my grandfather, there
was a lot of sailboat racing at the yacht club back then. My dad, my grandfather, my uncle. I
never really learned. And I wish I had. I did not spend much time there, but we would go watch
them race. And we had this little Boston Whaler. My Uncle Ted, Ted Corlett, did a lot of work
�on the docks. You know, it was not fancy the way it is now. And he did a lot of the repair and he
was just like. He's an engineer and he just loved to spend time doing it. So anyway, so we we had
a really good slip right by the. And we had just a little seventeen and a half foot Boston Whaler.
But we would waterski behind it. We waterski on the big lake or in Silver Lake. That hasn't
changed really at all. It's funny, though, you go down the river. The houses are so big and fancy
and they were just like little fishing shacks.
AC: And I remember a lot all those little... Some are the same.
SB: You would come from where the the yacht club was?
AC: Yes. Down to the big lake. Down the river to... The cove was always a big thing. We would
go as kids. We would go as teenagers. There's usually a party there. That whole thing that
happens. Venetian weekend happened all the time. Well, not with a barge necessarily, but there
are always boats there partying and getting sun. We spend time there too, or we go out in the
lake and, you know, jump in the water when it was really hot. Way out there, which we still do.
AC: OK. So changes. So the yacht club changing is a big thing, you know. I guess it's for the
best. But I. I'm sad about losing the character that used to be there. It was very not fancy, which
was lovely anyway. So that all. Same with all the condos. I think it's great. People can enjoy the
area, but it's to me, it's lost a lot of that summer cottage thing.
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AC: There's still some of those cottages on Park Street, and I just love them. And I hope that,
you know, and I don't I never feel bad if somebody. I mean, I don't I don't disparage somebody
putting money into the area. That's fine. But I it is. I miss that old. Like it was a sleepy little town
that got a a little crazy in the summer, but it was just a sleepy little town. That was lovely.
AC: I would say the Lake Shore hasn't changed a whole bunch, but I'm so lucky that we have a
place, and that's remained the same.
SB: You know, your grandmother's cotton grandmother's big barn or a farmhouse.
AC: Yes, we called the farmhouse.
SB: Yes.
AC: Yeah. How’re we doing?
SB: We’ve got time to talk.
AC: OK. How much time to read?
SB: An hour. OK. Yeah. And so, what... What other... You did, boating, swimming. You didn't
do sailing.
�AC: Well, I didn't personally race boats, but other people in my family did. But we did have a
Sunfish on the lakeshore, which a lot of people used. I turtled at twice and then bent the mast.
So, then I decided I was going to sail it anymore. But my Uncle Ted made surfboards like big
heavy, almost like floating rafts. So, we did we'd just play in the water a lot.
AC: Oh, I'll tell you another beach thing we did. And these are my creative older sisters. We did
sand castings a lot. So, you get Plaster of Paris and a big bucket and then you get the sand wet.
My oldest sister, Sue, was a master at it. You take something to make an impression in the sand.
Maybe it's your hand. Or maybe it's like she loved to do impressions of, you know, like Mother
Mary or I don't know. Stuff she found. And then you pour it. You make plaster with the lake
water and you pour it in and let it harden. And then when you flip it out, it's a sand casting and
we have him hanging all over. And I had my kids doing when they were a little. So that was a
big beach tradition. And artistic.
SB: So, you were, were always doing art, doing something artistic always?
AC: That was that's how we kept busy. Never had a TV. Never, never had a TV there. Now we
do. Which I don't like. But I think the men sort of overrode the new TV because they. Because of
sports.
SB: What do you think this place was special for you?
AC: I mean, the family was there. Connection to family and connection to the lake. And, you
know, I am always going to paint the lake. I I am so driven to connect to what what that how it
makes me feel to be at the beach. And sometimes when I'm painting, I think all those hours. I
mean, we used to lie in the sun and get sunburnt for hours. You know, baby oil or Copper Tone,
you know, getting the perfect tan was really important.
AC: And so, all those hours I spent on the beach, I did a lot of reading on the beach, too. And we
would dig sand, sand castles, make, you know, drip castles. And, you know, there was all kinds
of things we did.
AC: But anyway, when I paint now, I think, oh, that's what all that time was like, stacking up my
bank, like filling me up with all this information that I still need to get out canvas. I think that a
lot. That's why I need to paint like the water I painted all the time, or the dunes, or the clouds.
I mean, I'm so driven and you think I get tired of it, but I haven't get tired of it.
SB: You say it has much changed since those days.
AC: Right. Right. The dunes and the clouds. Dune Schooner rides, the same thing. I did him as a
kid in the 60s, scared the death, scared me to death. I just took friends on them last year. They're
really a lot the same. God bless them for keeping the dune rides. So Mount Baldy, the dune rise.
That's all the same. I don't mind. I think it's kind of fun.
�AC: The downtown has so many great restaurants. It really does. And it's fun. The bars, the
restaurants are great. You know, the shops. I just I don't go to town when it's busy because it's
too frustrating.
SB: You live here, now.
AC: Yes.
SB: Now, how did you decide to do that?
AC: 30 years now I've lived here. Well, because I married a person who who had a business
here. He we met because he was my parents' dentist. So, I was living in Chicago in an art
neighborhood, and they were frantic to get me married because I was an old maid, because I was
27. So, they introduced me to him and we hit it off and got married within a year. So, in 88 we
got married and I moved here and I'm so happy I did because even though that marriage didn't
work out in the long run, it was great. Well, it was great. And we have these wonderful kids, and
it was wonderful raising the kids here.
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AC: I loved being… I thought at first, I was afraid a little bit of such a small school system.
But it's a stellar system. And you can I was on the school board. You could jump in with both
feet and really make a difference. And I think a lot of parents do. I think it's so. So, I've lived for
30 years. So, even in the time I've lived here, it's changed a lot.
AC: But especially since the 60s and 70s when I was growing up in the summer here, I think the
lakeshore has changed the least, although it's real sad to see Westshore Golf Course gone. And I
never really we would go we're right behind the 15th green. We would go in and, you know, put
around, you know, goof around out there and we would have lemonade stands out there, made a
lot of money, and then we would search for golf balls, sell them back to the golfers, and make a
lot of money. I mean, really enough money to go to McVeigh's and buy candy. But the. But other
than that golf course, you know, there's some big houses and stuff, but there's still a lot of
cottages. And it's lovely.
AC: It's so crowded. Like Douglas Beach is so crowded. You know, it's just for parking and
stuff. Sort of too bad. But I'm so lucky. I know it doesn't matter to me. I think it's good if people
can use it. It's I think that B&Bs are interesting, you know. And now it's AirB&B that that's
brought so many more people. But I don't go in. I go into town to do yoga in the morning. I love
there's some stores I love, but I don't go downtown in the summer.
SB: And how would you compare Saugatuck-Douglas, to other places that you lived? Is it totally
different?
AC: Yes.
SB: A little cocoon or what? How would you describe?
�AC: Well, you know, I haven't lived too many other places.
SB: You were in Chicago.
AC: I was in a neighborhood of Chicago. I grew up in a suburb of Chicago. And then when I
went to school in Madison, Wisconsin. But up north, I've spent a fair amount of time in a gallery
up like in Harbor Springs. And I have a good friend in Traverse City. I've spent lots of time in
Leelanau. I think I think Saugatuck, some of those towns way up north are kind of kind of still
feel like Saugatuck used to. There's some big money, but mostly it's just local. I love that the
farms are still close Here, you can go. And I love our artisan cheeses and, you know, like our
like, Virtue's Cider and Fenne Valley and all these places.
SB: And let's not forget Cranes.
AC: Cranes. You know, I don't remember going as a kid.
SB: You don't. remember it being here?
AC: I don't remember it being here.
SB: Picking apples?
AC: It might have been here but I didn't do it as a kid. I can't. We always went to Pier Cove. We
used to always go down there. No, I don't remember.
SB: What was Pier Cove? Why did you go to Pier?
AC: Just because it's a cool beach.
SB: You don't like picking fruit here? Any of that stuff?
AC: I didn't. I think my mom had too many kids to marshal around, but I took my kids picking
fruit. But that would be in the 90s. Yeah. What else is big? Yeah, we put, you know, I think just
hanging out outside, you know. We were talking about I was different from anything.
SB: So how is it different from any place else?
AC: Well, right now, the fact that it's a small town. Oh, it's very different because it's especially
in the off-season, it has that wonderful small town feel where you drive in the gas station and
you you wave at the owner, you know.
AC: Now, I forgot. McGee, you know, from your car or you you know you know, the whatnot
was always there. You know, the people there or whatever you see people, you know, all the
time. It's a lovely small town, but it has so much sophistication. So even though sometimes
people retired back then, now it's hugely a retirement community. And same with the gay
�community, I think has has put roots down. They didn't just back then it was OK. There was a
bar or two or whatever, and I don't really know. But now it's it's part of our bigger culture.
AC: And I think there's such a wealth right now of of intelligence and experience and the
willingness to volunteer. And so, this history center's amazing and our library is amazing. And,
you know, our school system's amazing in part because of all the partnerships. You know,
Rotary is amazing. I mean, there's just so much going on, I'm sure. And for all the SCA and
Oxbow. All those things make it such a rich place to live. I don't think other small communities
this size have that kind of, you know, at all.
SB: Remember, this interview is going to be saved for a long time.
AC: Yes.
SB: Maybe 50 years from now. Somebody listens to it. What advice would you have for them or
what would you tell them about this time? About this time right now? About your community
and others right now? How would you explain it 50 years from now, it's going to be totally
different. Probably.
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AC: Well, I love this community and I don't think I ever want to leave. I like it. It's I think it's
exciting that it's full of tourists in the summer. And I think it's delightful when it's just the people
who live here year-round and some people live here, you know, come some people go away in
the winter. That's a little different. I think that's delightful, too, to you know, I think we have a
beautiful fabric.
AC: We have our school, which is really strong and wonderful. And the and the teachers are
amazing and the and the parents are amazing. So, we have her school. We have our businesses
there. They're starting to dovetail more and more because some of the business owners like
Landshark have their kids in the schools. You know, we have professionals living here and
raising their families because now they can work remotely. And that's changed a lot. And I think
that's lovely. Lots of people work from their home. And then we have the retired community. Or
and or summer people who don't have children here, so maybe the gay community or just people
that live here because they love it. It's beautiful and aren't necessarily connected with the schools.
But then our connect and put all their energy in the historic society or that or the Center for the
Arts or Oxbow or many others.
AC: There are many other charitable causes like it just had that thing Paws for a Cause or Cause
for a Paws or something, fundraising for the animals wide. I don't know exactly. But anyway, we
have a great scholarship foundation and people give to that. There's Aware scholarships. Aware
is another... So there's, there's all kinds of partnerships going on and. I think that's maybe one of
the most lovely things about this community.
AC: And then, of course, you have the lake shore and you just can't beat the beaches. And I hope
I hope we always all have access to the beaches because they're amazing. And I think when I
�stand and I'm painting or I'm looking out over the lake, I feel like it's timeless, like it's… it's the
same as it was one hundred years ago. And it'll be the same in one hundred years.
SB: Yeah.
AC: Yeah. If it doesn't get polluted because of course they're going to let those oil pipelines
through or something worse.
SB: Yeah. So. So what advice would you give somebody 50 years from now if they were going
to be living here or are thinking of living here?
AC: I don't know. I mean, treasure it. Treasure it. It's beautiful. I hope it doesn't get out of the
range of a regular person being able to afford to live here, you know, right now I live out of
town. So, we raised our kids in town. And then when I became single, I bought a house out of
town. And it's, it's not the country, but it's more affordable and still beautiful and still accessible
to the town. So, I hope that I hope that that's still people are still able to live here and it doesn't
price out.
SB: And what's your favorite place to paint here?
AC: You know, it's kind of might sound trite, but I love to go to the Oval. I love to go up in the
dunes. And you can either look north where it's wilderness and dunes or you can look south on
the beach with the people. Right now, I'm doing a whole series of people on the beach paintings.
So much fun. So, I guess I still like to go to the beach to paint the most.
AC: Dune State Park, there is another amazing resource, amazing resource. I go many days a
week with my dog to walk her. So. That's a lovely place to paint and just to be.
SB: In the park?
AC: In the Dune State Park, I don't know how many acres, it's hundreds and it's mostly wooded.
But then it has all those beaches too there. Gorgeous. But you need to be willing to walk a little
to get there.
SB: I need a compass.
AC: You might need a compass. The trails aren't marked very well.
SB: I could get lost.
AC: You could get lost. Yeah. You have to know where the sun sets.
SB: Figure, if I haven't asked you that, can you think of your memories of this town that you just
remember standing out?
�AC: You know, the docks that are along the river on the Saugatuck side of Lake Kalamazoo.
You know, so in front of from the bottler all the way down to Wick's Park, those are pretty much
the same. And I remember boats rafting off of each other on holiday weekends, and that just
makes me so happy. I love to see it now. All the art fairs, I didn't bring that up. They were
around. My grandmother did on the clothesline after she was part of the art club way back. It's
still I just became a member. It's hopefully the art club will still be up in 50 years.
50:04
AC: And actually, they do a couple our fairs. And I just said, OK, I'm going to do it because I
want to bring locals to it and to participate in and bring it closer to what it used to be, which was
local people with their art, not just. And know commercial are people right now, visual artists
like say.
SB: Right. Right.
AC: But the… So, the art club is another great resource. And there's a garden club or two. I don't
really know. Anyway, and Oxbow.
SB: Have you been back to Oxbow?
AC: I love Ox by actually going to teach there the summer. I'm going to teach pastels. They have
the art in the meadow classes. So that's not part of their accredited through the Art Institute.
That's kind of more for locals. Oxbow’s fabulous. I can't believe how much the same it is. Even
though they have new buildings and they've kept the old they've kept the feeling. It's really a
wonderful, happy place.
AC: You know, in the 60s and 70s, I was sort of a wannabe hippie. And I feel like, you know,
your bare feet in the sand and you're wearing a halter top. Everybody else is wearing, you know,
little cutoffs. I feel like that's still happening in Oxbow. Oxbow is timeless and that's lovely. And
they have all those that Talmage words there. There's amazing art coming out of there. I hope
that's still going in 50 years.
AC: And if somebody was to here and live here, definitely go and spend time there and support
it and get to know at. Because it's amazing and has been here, you know, a really long time.
Hundred and fifty years or something.
SB: OK for when you were a child and you would be coming up here for the summer? Well,
what would be the thing that you would look forward to?
AC: So, the whole thing was pure joy. Let me get one side. Pure joy. It was, you know, even the
summers I worked or the summers I didn't work. It was just so it was just beautiful and it was
safe. You know, it's kind of amazing. My parents just let me go. You were lucky to live in that
time. I think so. And have the grandparents with the foresight, too. Yes. Oh, I can't tell you how
lucky I am. I think that every day. I think that every day.
�SB: Great. Thank you.
AC: Well, thank you. It's been really fun and you're really good at that.
SB: So glad to have preserved your history. I'm going to use it for people to understand what life
was like. And we don't lose those memories. That is very interesting. It's really great. We’re
done. Okay, turn that off.
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Al Weener interviewed by Ken Kutzel
June 2, 2018
KK: And it's on. This is Ken Kutzel, and I am here today with Al Weener at the Old Schoolhouse in
Douglas, Michigan. Today is June 2nd, 2018. This oral history is being collected as part of the Stories
of Summer project, which is supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities Common Heritage Program. So I'll thank you for talking with me today.
AL: I'm glad to be here.
KK: I’m interested to learn more about your family history and your experiences od summer in the
Saugatuck-Douglas area. Can you please tell me your full name and spell it?
AL: Allen, A L L E N, Jay, J A Y. Weener W E E N E R.
KK: OK. And you don't use any accents or anything.
No. No umlauts. You know, none of that.
KK: Tell me about where you grew up.
AL: I was I was born in Holland, Michigan, and Saugatuck was the place to go if you wanted to. The
first liberal area south of Holland. My Uncle Harry used to come down here deer hunting, which was
actually he just came down here to drink. He was a well-known businessman in Holland. His last
name was Plugamars. He owned many of, you know, quite a few buildings downtown.
AL: But anyway, Saugatuck, when I was finishing high school, I came to Saugatuck and I worked on a
fishing trawler with the Peetle brothers on a boat called the Chambers Brothers. Peetles also were
fishermen.
KK: And that's P E E L right?
AL: Yeah, right.Right. Some of them, they're still around. And so that was my introduction. Catching
alewives. Which brings back memories to some for sale, I think they went to Japan. Then after high
school, there's some cloudiness in my memory, but I was I helped build the stage and put on the pop
pop festivals and working for SRC as a temporary job. So that brings, you know, some of that.
KK: There was at Pottawattamie Beach, right?
AL: Right, yeah. And I was actually backstage during the kerfuffle, which there were. That's another
history. Part of, you know, part of Saugatuck. Let's see. What would you like to know?
KK: Well, you talk about if you want.
AL: Oh, okay.
�KK: Talk about that if you... If you want to talk about the... Well, the pop festival, I would have asked
you about it anyway.
AL: Oh, okay. Well, I was backstage. We helped build the stage. I was just 19 years old. And or 18, I
forget. And I was hanging around this, The Frost, which was... I think he was .... And the MC5 were
there and B.B. King, not B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Arthur Brown, Alice Cooper. MC5, that sort of
scene. You know the bunch.
KK: They're all in the poster.
AL: Yeah. Mama Lee Thorton never showed, and there was a big rush toward the stage, And I guess I
missed all the excitement. I mean, I was in the middle of it, but everything around the edges? Didn't
see it a thing.
KK: Yeah, they did that two years, right?
AL: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
KK: Okay, what are some of the most vivid memories from your childhood.
AL: Saugatuck? I had…
KK: Well, either, either place.
AL: Oh, I don't know. Let's see. Well, my dad always took us swimming in the area. So we're were, I
was kind of always around Lake Michigan. In fact, I've pretty much lived within 10 miles of the
lakeshore my entire life, so. Lake Michigan beaches.
KK: OK, tell me more about your family and your family history.
AL: My grandfather, Frank Weener, owned gas stations in Holland at one time and an oil company.
And on the north side. And, his house actually was moved from Ottawa Beach. His house on Van
Dyke Street, which is now gone, was a root beer stand that they moved from Ottawa Beach. He lived
there quite a long time.
KK: Oh, really?
AL: And my dad, their family home was right where the North Side Russel's is now. So that's where
they grew up on River Avenue.
KK: Oh, OK.
5:09
KK: Why did you first come to Saugatuck-Douglas? And of course, you mention, you know, a little bit
about it. But what made you come here?
�AL: Oh, I just thought it was an interesting little fishing town. And then by getting my feet wet, as it
were, out in the lake, learning, working with the trawlers for a while, then playing music with with the
locals. We had a band way back then with Pete Hungerford and many... Jack Wulkan. Dave Rafinauld
on Leo.... these guys are all dead. But I'm not.
KK: You're not.
AL: Jack is still living in Kalamazoo.
KK: Did you guys play in, like, the local bar?
AL: Oh, yeah. We played the Sand Bar and the Butler Blue Temple Woodshed Boathouse. Which bar
am I missing? That's just about all of them. [Laughs].
KK: Some of them are gone.
AL: Yeah. Woodshed's gone and Blue Tempo's gone.
KK: Well, you know, as long as you brought it up and, you know, would you tell me what you can
about the Blue Tempo?
AL: Well, we just were looking for any place to play and we were playing a lot of original music.
And Toad was had no problem with that. Som we would set up.
KK: And Toad was the owner?
AL: Yeah, Toad was the owner.
KK: Yeah.
AL: Toad Davis.
KK: Yeah, Davis.
AL: Yeah. And it was a long stairway down and we'd set up. We played there a couple times. It was
we didn't get a big crowd but a local crowd. I can remember some fathers weren't real happy that
their teenage daughters were at the Blue Tempo.
KK: You were. Were you playing more to the straight crowd or the gay crowd or straight?
AL: Oh, just the locals.
KK: Oh, yeah. Yeah, because. We know that that you know. That was a gay bar.
�AL: That was a gay is a gay bar at certain times. The notables played there. You know, great jazz
greats played. Yeah.
KK: So, who do you know of that that was-?
AL: Well, it seems like Dizzy Gillespie played there. I'm not sure. These are all hearsay because I never
talked to Toad about it. But, uh, you know that was a it was a fabulous little club. And I hope that
you've talked to Bill Steininger, because he could give you more.
KK: No, we haven't, but I will write that name down. So, tell the story, because I know you were
instrumental in acquiring a sign.
AL: Oh, yeah. And it caught on fire.
KK: Yes. I want to tell what you know about that.
AL: Well, it was a sad day when any institution catches on fire. And I don't remember how. I've just
hanging around, drove up and and saw that that roof had sagged and Toad was standing out front.
And we're both gonna go. Go. Boy, this is pretty rough. And I can't imagine what he felt like. But the
roof had sagged and it was still the fire was out. And I suppose there is yellow tape around it. But I
just asked him if I could have the sign and he said, I don't care. or something to that effect. So, I just
walked out on the roof and pulled it off with a hammer.
KK: OK.
AL: Far as I can remember.
KK: So, it was up on the roof.
AL: Yeah, it was on a roof. Yeah. And the roof had sagged down due to the fire. So it was dangerous.
But who cares?
KK: But we know you so. Oh, let's see. Can you share any particular memories about, you know, your
time here about living here and when, you know, things are moments that are especially memorable
to you?
AL: Oh, I was thinking of Sally Erlandson, who just passed away, and I believe she was instrumental in
having the gazebo built along the water Wicks Park and. And we used to play there. And when it was
actually when it was just. Instructed, we had an informal bunch of locals and we we painted it in just
to help out.
KK: Good!
AL: So, Sally was always interested in her and what we were doing.
�KK: Can you tell me about your friend Fred? Because I know he was sort of involved in the music
world here.
AL: Oh, Fred Glazier.
KK: Yeah.
AL: Oh, and he was.
KK: What can you tell me about Fred?
AL: Well, he was a freelance writer and he grew up next door to in Chicago area somewhere. Then he
was friends with a lot of the oh, man.
10:07
AL: This is this is a brain’s... Mike Bloomfield. So, we did an oral history of Mike Bloomfield. One of
his last works. And he'd collect art from.
KK: Where was it?
AL: I don't know, Chicago very well. But they had the area that everyone was a grand sort of
fleamarket. And anyway, he had a lot of art that was on the floors of his his closets kind of in disarray.
And before he passed away, I took it and I tried to sort it out and flatten it. And then. So I had a
bunch of his art. Anyway, he he was a he wrote for the commercial record as a stringer, I believe, an
elegant paper.
KK: Didn't he have a little magazine?
AL: I think he may have yeah. Yeah. I think all about music in the area. Oh, he may have tried and he
tried just about everything I've seen and everything, but working for a living. I don't recommend it at
all. Manual labor doesn't suit you.
KK: Well, that's true. Oh, were there any places or institutions that you know, are really important to
you here in Saugatuck-Douglas?
AL: Well, we used to play at Jocko's and Jack Wilkins still being a friend of mine. We'd kind of camp
out in the back yard and throw parties there.
KK: Where was Jocko's?
AL: It is now east of the Dune scooter rides on the rise of the hill. It was a Jocko Wilkin, Jack's father,
who owned that. So, yeah, he had a Lake Road Hotel Motel.
KK: Were those inside the cabin?
�AL: Yeah, those little cabins behind you.
KK: Oh, okay, yeah.
AL: Yeah. And then the restaurant was in front.
KK: Yeah.
AL: Yeah, I think they did a quick shot in the Road to Perdition back there.
KK: Yeah, that. OK. Any special places you like to eat in the past during that period?
AL: Oh, I was somewhat unkind to the local restauranteurs.
KK: How so?
AL: No I won't go into that. Oh, I mean, The Douglas Dinette was a popular spot. And then The
Redwood which is now... Donna Peel passed away.
KK: Yeah.
AL: The Ways- The Waypoint. That was the Redwood. Yeah. Way back then. Oh, I don't know. Let's
see The Elbow Room, which is now The Southerner.
KK: Yeah, The Southerner.
AL: Yeah. Yeah. I just think you know The Southerner. That was a great spot. And The Butler. My dad
always loved to go to The Butler when we're having a family get together.
KK: You never had any contact, really, with the School of Art, did you?
AL: Oh, yeah.
KK: Oh, you did? Tell me about that.
AL: Yeah, I worked there. Then my old girlfriend way back was a model out there and. And so I
actually have the stove. Well, I did a lot of work out there and I played out there for fundraiser's
many times. And actually before I gained my my present stature, I did that. [Laughs Loudly].
AL: She and I both did modeling out there.
KK: Yeah.
AL: And I met a lot of people on there and let Sally… Oh, they had The Pumphouse for many years.
KK: What were their names?
�AL: They lived in The Pumphouse. Which is now The Pumphouse. The Pumphouse Museum. Sally. I
forgot the last name. And there was a cottage.
KK: And it was…
AL: Yeah, that's how I got involved out there.
KK: Oh, OK.
AL: In part. So, let's see. I remembered strip volleyball games and stuff like that where I was wearing
a pair of shorts and some women would be festooned in scarves and other extraneous... [Both
Laugh] They had they knew the game.
KK: Let's see what else we have here.
AL: Shorey. Sally Shorey.
KK: Sally Shorey. Okay.
AL: Because I was living across in Saugatuck and helped remodel The Pumphouse. Way, way back.
15:00
KK: Yeah. And now, you know, you talked about you did work here and you did. What actually do
you do for work?
AL: Some people say not much, but back then… Well, I was a Mason tender. I was project supervisor,
which means that when they were out of town, I would try to direct traffic. So we toured the slate
roof off, patched that.
KK: That's at the at the Pumphouse.
AL: Yeah, The Pumphouse, which I think I gave you a few slates.
KK: Yeah.
AL: Yeah. Which I, yeah, fortunately still had a couple laying around. What were you asking me? Oh
the Pumphouse. Well, what I did for a living?
KK: What you did andAL: Yeah. Well I was. I was. Well, I painted a bunch of them for quite a while down here, but then
transitioned more into construction.
�KK: And you were involved a lot in New Richmond, weren't you?
AL: Oh, yeah. I bought The New Richmond Hotel from a friend of mine. He says, "Careful what you
wish for."
AL: I said, "You know, if I owned it, I would do this and that."
AL: And he said, "Well, I'll sell it to you on a land contract." And then so I did remodel that or we did
that for quite a few years. And then it caught on fire. Top floor burned out. Fixed that. And then used
it as a vacation rental some years successfully, some years less so. And that was the design syrett for
the park and raised a little bit of money. And I was on the fundraising committee for the bridge.
KK: Why don't you explain exactly what that meant? I mean, what were they doing with the bridge?
AL: Oh, at the time Kevin Ricoh was the Parks and Recreation Director for the Allegan County. They,
along with the road commission, Bill Nelson was the head of the road commission at the time,
were able to secure a federal grant to rebuild the bridge. Subject to not using the caveat was to not
have a use for vehicle traffic and to rebuild it being the oldest swing bridge in its act, in its original
location. So that bridge is capable of being turned with the crank. I think they spent $800,000
building that. That spans the Kalamazoo Kalamazoo River where New Richmond was, is.
KK: New Richmond is, was. Yeah. It was more of a town at one point, wasn't it?
AL: Oh, yeah. The train used to stop there five times a day. OK. And from what I understand, it was
an Indian trading post prior to that in the 1830s. There are hotels which I had the last, the last
structure. A lot of them burned down at the Great Fire, but... The mail used to come to New
Richmond. Go by stagecoach to Saugatuck and Holland, sometimes by water, but stagecoach to
Holland. And I had relatives living in the East Saugatuck. So, they may have come through Ellis Island
and gotten off the train in New Richmond. And, you know, by ox cart or snail... By snail. [Both laugh]
By snail or tortoise. Yeah. Sledge lived in East Saugatuck.
KK: What... Talk about downtown Saugatuck and or downtown Douglas back, you know, in in like the
70s, 60s, 70s. What do you remember about them?
AL: Well, The Over Ice Lumber was still in Douglas as well as there was a hardware store. It was
struggling at the time. My girlfriend and I painted The Dutcher Lodge way, way back when it was still
a Masonic Hall upstairs.
KK: And was it still being used as a hall?
AL: Yeah, it was kind of the end of the end of its tenure as a hall .And I remember there were huge
bees nests and even more warm weather came that would drip honey through the floor.
KK: I've been up there.
AL: Yeah?
�KK: Yeah, I did. There's still a stage up there.
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AL: Oh, yeah. Yeah. There's still a stage. I don't know what they've done to it, but I remember
working for Virgil Lloyd was one of the one of the old timers who wanted it was part of the lodge.
Burin Van Osterberg another. He lived on the other side of the water on the other side of the river.
And his wife was Chuck Glummer's sister, she was crazy as a loon. [Chuckles] She was
institutionalized.
KK: Oh, really?
AL: He would take her out of the home, drive around on a regular basis. Her hair was never combed
and she never talked at all. Chuck Glummer was was... lived in Ganges, had the tractor repair.
KK: Oh.
AL: Which is that... Oh, there's the plumber house there.
KK: Yeah. Is it across the street from it?
AL: Right.
KK: Yeah.
AL: Yeah. OK. Yeah.Yeah. I've forgotten his wife's name. Chuck was lived in Ganges Township. And
they, they had a hedge your business and repaired crackers. I remember going in there and asking,
"What can I get for, you know, the tune up my engine for ten bucks?"
AL: And the mechanic opened the hood, looked at the engine, closed the hood and said, "That'll be
ten dollars."
KK: Oh, it sounds like it, you know.
AL: Yeah. You stay at the Texaco station where where they would carry a pistol when they're
pumping gas.
KK: Really?
AL: Yeah, the Brown, Browns owned, had that old, Al Brown. Jim Brown. There was Joe Brown. And
they were either township or county one with Joe Browns, County cop and, you know, nice.
KK: Was it right? Was that the one that was downtown or down near Bluestar-
�AL: By Bluestar. Now, it's a real estate.
KK: Yeah. Lighthouse, I think, Reality.
AL: Yeah. That was a Texaco Station. I know there was one over there. And, Al Brown was there, you
know, from the south. But very you know, once you get to know them well, you go in there and play
guitar for a couple of minutes at the gas station. I'm no guitar player, but enough to break the ice.
KK: Well, and then when you came down here, you spent more time in Saugatuck than in Douglas?
Or did it matter?
AL: Didn't matter. There were just one little town.
KK: Do you have any memory of the Greeson School of Art at the Footy of Center Street? There's a
little art school there.
AL: Down here?
KK: It was just in one building. Yeah.
AL: Oh, no.
KK: Yeah. I always ask that question because not too many people remember it.
AL: No, I remember Oxbow. Yeah. There was no I'm not aware of that one.
KK: Did you ever come down? You know, it would be would be up from... Yeah. Down from Holland
on the wintertime or what was it something guys in all that all year or was it just mostly summer?
AL: Oh well I would come down pretty much any time. Mostly summer jobs.
Oh, okay.
AL: But when we were painting houses we used to put in as a single ad in The Commercial Record
with the phone number. Not even a phone number. I mean, just an address. Post office box. And we
were living in New Richmond at the time, so I had a post office box in New Richmond. Somebody
would write me a letter, send it via post. I would get a letter from them, send a letter back. You know,
this is all is very slow. And then we would quite often get a painting job that way.
I didn't paint forever, but it seemed like it. Yeah.
KK: So that would be about what time? The 60s?
AL: Yeah, and early 70s.
KK: Early 70s.
�AL: Yeah.
KK: So, you were already living out in New Richmond.
AL: Yeah. And my girlfriend and I also live right downtown Saugatuck in the old Masonic Hall up
above in which is now kind of an atrium building the upper floors. Like upstairs from the- on Butler
Street from where Butler Pantry was. Yeah, right. Hey there. I think the Leland building was. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. I did a bunch of work on the Leland building with the first- the initial remodel, my cousin
and I tore the north side of the building up and removed the brick and put beams in for windows
and also build a back stairway in there.
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AL: Put bay windows on the front, which are now gone. Let's see, yeah, I hadn't thought of that for a
while. Yeah. So, what else you got? What what?
KK: You know, Iet's talk...
AL: Nice list.
KK: Well, this is for all kinds of different things, you know, here. This is one for your shenanigans.
How would you describe Saugatuck-Douglas, to somebody who had never been here before?
AL: When I first came, it was a little fishing town. You can still buy smoked fish in Saugatuck. You can
get smoked Chubb's. The Hungerford's had a boathouse on the river, which is no, you know, a
glorified cottage. They lived up on the hill. It was a very relaxed little town, very small.
KK: OK. And with the summer season was about how long?
AL: Three months. Yeah. You can set your watch by it.
KK: Yeah. In the summer, where was your favorite place to go?
AL: Well, I spent a lot of time on the sandbar or just houses. We played a big party at Tower Marine
and that's why I brought up Bill Dillerard, because the tower was still up at that point. And, I
remember there is a big house and it had a grand piano in it, and we threw a big party or they threw
a big party up there. And that may have may be because they were going to tear down the tower or
something like that. You'd have to ask Bill. But that's why Tower Marinas....
KK: Yeah.
AL: -has the name.
KK: That name.
AL: And of course, Tower Marine had a big boat shed and built river queens there.
�KK: What was your impression of the law enforcement in Saugatuck?
AL: Oh, I remember Lyle Jones. He was a chief of police who was pretty relaxed guy. Not at all what
we have today. We did.
KK: Right.
AL: We were we wrote songs about the locals. So, we do have... There was a song written with Lyle
Jones named in it.
KK: Oh, really?
AL: Yeah. Those are- "Called the Corner" Jack Wilken, I bet has a copy of it. Wow. And Dick Hoffman
was the mayor for a while. He was a cool guy. And Greg Hoffman, his brother, always rode a bike and
delivered papers. Another local.
KK: Do the Hollanders come down here a lot?
AL: To drink.
KK: Yeah, but did they admit it?
AL: Well, if they were, Saugatuck was the first place... Ottawa County was pretty much dry. So, the
Saugatuck was some place you could get away.
KK: You know, there were the. There was that racetrack here.
AL: Oh, yes.
KK: At the time. Well, what can you tell me about that?
AL: I worked for Al Masters, who owned Holiday Hill. Al and Fran and he and partner put on the jazz
festival there. And I worked for them for at least 10 years off and on. And I noticed in his basement
he had a bunch on reel-to-reel tapes. And after pestering him for a while, I was able to get those
tapes of the Jazz Festival 1961. And I brought him to a friend of mine in Grand Rapids who owned a
recording studio. And they were transferred into a digital medium. And they're probably copies in
this building somewhere.
KK: If I remember correctly, we do have them.
AL: I hope so.
KK: Mike Sweeney has been very, very involved.
AL: So, yeah, I gave them to Mike.
�KK: Yeah.
AL: And so, I had those transferred and that had Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and many other
interesting Hollywood or Las Vegas senior stuff. Yeah. Hilarious. Four hours at least. And I remember
he lost a lot of money and recorded it had it had A West Michigan sound out of Muskegon recorded
for him, and he had no rights to do that. And so that's why they sat in his basement, because RCA or
the parent companies who had the recording rights for these artists wouldn't let him release or do
anything with the with the sound recording.
30:08
KK: Oh, that's interesting. Do you know, when they hit the rock festivals there. Talk to me or about
what was it like with all those people coming into town? As I've heard stories about it. Do you have
stories about it?
AL: I was backstage the whole time, so. Or right in the in the festival itself. I remember we were... not
inebriated, but my memories are somewhat, hazy. [Both chuckle] I was never in town because I was
right in the middle of middle of the action. Because I know there are stories about the traffic.
KK: And, yeah, them literally shutting the town down because nobody can get in or out.
AL: Yeah. I just... Well, being in the middle of it, I didn't need to go anywhere.
KK: That's okay.
AL: We'd go swimming at Pottawattamie Beach was like 50 cents. They had a big water slide or a
diving platform, which you couldn't do anymore.
KK: You know, you're involved in playing music. Now, why don't you talk about that?
AL: Oh, well, I'm not doing a whole lot, but occasionally I have the… I can play at Marrows in
Saugatuck. Hopefully that'll kick in and in June. Otherwise, we had a band called Planet Seven at the
time when we were still in our teens and. Yeah, well, that was with local local guys, some of which are
not no longer with us. Leo Vischer was the bass player for a little on. Drank himself to death. There
was other ones. Chuck Daly was another local. We also had a country band. Tom Edgecomb was
another notable, notable guitar player and songwriter.
AL: His father was Morgan Edgecomb, which the fireboat is named after, after Morgan. He was an
interesting guy who worked on larger vessels and was First Mate for Evel Knievel for a long time.
KK: Oh, was he?
AL: As well as... You know, He didn't talk about it either. He didn't talk about his clientele because
they, you know…. I think Tom said that he worked for the Kennedys. And, you know, and whoever
they also Tom is the only guy that I knew my age was. He had been in Cuba with his dad.
�KK: That's Tom Edgecomb.
AL: Yeah. He passed away 15 years ago.
KK: Wait, there was something I wanted to ask you. Tell us about your work with the fish.
AL: Oh, you know, the sturgeon. Yeah, we're we have an on again off again nonprofit organization
and we partner with we do a little bit to help to assist Fisheries and Wildlife DNR and then the Gun
Lake Tribe, the Gun Lake Tribe is now taken up most of the heavy lifting due to budget cuts,
governmental budget cuts. But the Kalamazoo River Sturgeon for Tomorrow is is we're trying to keep
the sturgeon in Kalamazoo River by using native stock. So there is a small fishing fish hatchery. They
called it streamside rearing facility on the north side of New Richmond at the county park. It's a
seasonal small trailer funded by Fisheries and Wildlife. Federal money.
KK: And so, what do what are they actually do there?
AL: They catch native stock in the Kalamazoo River, rear them to a size in a few months sometime.
They start with eggs or spawn. And by the time they let them go, they could be five to seven inches
long, and then they're able to escape predators. But a small and a juvenile sturgeon is covered with
kind of spiny, sharp plates and fins. So, once they get that big, they have a better chance of making
it. OK.
35:01
AL: And the largest sturgeon in the last couple decades, caught and released in the Kalamazoo, from
the Kalamazoo, was 6'9".
KK: Oh.
AL: And weighed in in excess of 200lbs.
KK: Wow, that's a big fish.
AL: A big fish. They've been here forever.
KK: Are there more and more of them now?
AL: They're still a remnant population in with a little help from or not doing any damage to the
habitat, I think they'll be here for a long time.
KK: Well, that's good.
AL: There's more, more habitat. Habitat enhancement funded by the Gun Lake Tribe and the DNR
just below the dam. The Allegan Dam on the Kalamazoo.
�KK: What are some of your hopes for the future, for, you know, for the area? What would you like to
see happen?
AL: Oh, I would like to see the small-town atmosphere. I'm not a Luddite, but I do appreciate good
architecture. So, Saugatuck could keep its quaint look by not building a lot of storage facilities to
store people's junk, which they should donate to charity and or, you know, just tacky architecture
and fast-food joints.
KK: That’s interesting. You know. What would you consider some of the nicer buildings?
AL: Oh, well. That the old.... let's see... Well, the let's see, the Episcopal Church is a really nice
building. Let's see, and some of the buildings downtown that the sandbars, a nice unrestored
building for the most part. Killwins, that's a pretty cool building. And some of the buildings along on
Butler Street were moved from Singapore. So, and I've worked for some houses in homes, private
homes that were moved up the ice from Singapore. So, back when we had real winters.
KK: Yeah, I know.
AL: Oh, that was real common.
KK: I know.
AL: Yeah. For months, kids pull them, pull them up with oxen or whatever.
KK: Yeah. Yeah. Assuming that somebody 50 years from now is going to be listening to this tape,
what do you want to say to him? Or her?
AL: To him or her, life is short. Anybody that will be there. Life was short, don't make the same
mistakes we did. Make some new ones. Be tolerant.
KK: OK. Anything else you want to add?
AL: No, just. It's… it's a pleasure that it's nice that we have a historical society.
KK: Okay. We will… [Recording ends in middle of sentence].
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Collection contains images and documents digitized and collected through the project "Stories of Summer," supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage Grant. The collection aims to document the twin lakeshore communities of Saugatuck and Douglas, Michigan, as they transformed through the state's bustling tourism industry and acceptance of minorities.
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Saugatuck (Mich.)
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Michigan, Lake
Allegan County (Mich.)
Beaches
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Al Weener describes his connections to West Michigan as well as his time as a fisherman in Saugatuck
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Kutzel, Ken (interviewer)
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Douglas (Mich.)
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