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  • Description: In this interivew, Foster remembers the motorcycle gangs driving through town during summer holiday weekends, the rock music festival in 1968, and the Saugatuck Jazz Festival.
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  • Text: KK: Yeah. RF: Pretty, quite open at that time. EG: So you could hear? You could hear music and…. RF: I could, yes, yeah, not really well but some, yeah. EG: Yeah. RF: And prior to that it was a stock car track, a little dirt stock car track and there was uh, um, uh, auto racing there.
Raymond Foster (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Text: 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.
Al Weener (audio interview and transcript) 2018

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  • Text: ...It was a place to call our own. And for teens that’s that’s kind of a big thing 46:00 EG: Did they have music there? Or TV? 46:02 JA: Oh music. There was dancing. We have a theme here 46:03 EG: Yeah. Ok. There we go [laugh] 46:07 JA: [laugh] So it was funny. It was called The P...
Jeanmarie Hays Arnold (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Text: ...DK: Yeah. EG: Sure. Lots of stuff going on in the late 1960s in Saugatuck and elsewhere. Music, popular culture, news. Was there a lot of discussion about that? DK: Some. EG: Were you really kind of isolated from what was going on? DK: It was interesting that especially on Saturday, they us...
Dave Karpowicz (audio interview and transcript) 2018
Howard Schultz was born in Douglas, Michigan in 1935. Howard recalls growing up during wartime on the lakeshore.
Howard Schultz (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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Candace Van Oss (Audio interview and transcript, Part 2 of 2), 2018

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  • Text: ... Then there was another… All these people were coming to the restaurant. There was a group that came it. It was one of the musical groups at that time. I can’t remember the name, but somebody said that’s who they are. They autographed a paper napkin and left it on the table. So, I pic...
Cynthia Sorenson (audio interview and transcript) 2018
Warren Valleau was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and visited his grandfather's farm in Saugatuck as a child. He recalls his father's work transporting produce, and in foundries in Grand Rapids, as well as his grandparents' associations with artists along the lakeshore.
Warren Valleau (Audio interview and transcript), 2018

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  • Text: ...just walk right onto it and get into the bus. And um, I’m working with Phyllis right now to get an arrangement for chamber music because the problem with our patrons is parking. 33:35 JO: That’s right 33:36 JM: They get into Saugatuck 33:37 JO: there’s no place 33:37 JM: And they can�...
Joy Muehlenbeck and Jerry Muehlenbeck-Elsinga (Audio interview and transcript), 2018