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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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...
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- Text: ...the boathouse, which was still there at the time, it had a second floor and, uh, people were hanging out there, listening to music and drinking beer. And, uh, and, and I think that was one of my first entries into the LGBT community because uh, I started to realize that I, I got awfully exc...
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- Text: ...uld come up almost to the, uh, to the bar there 7:52 TR: Yeah 7:53 DN: almost to the bar there. 7:54 TR: Did they have music there? 7:55 DN: Have what? 7:56 TR: Did they have music or-- 7:58 DN: Oh yeah 7:58 TR: --any kind of entertainment 7:59 DN: They had mus...
Howard Schultz was born in Douglas, Michigan in 1935. Howard recalls growing up during wartime on the lakeshore.
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- Description: In her interview, Nancy remembers a massive influx of college aged people on holiday weekends in the 1960s. Nancy also recounts attending the 1968 music festival that was held in Douglas.
- Text: ... was very interesting, there were a lot of drugs, lot of smoking, um, people were just enjoying themselves, lots of dancing, music was great! You know, it was a beautiful day, didn’t rain so it was very very nice…. NN: That makes a big difference when you were in a field, right? NC: Yes...
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- Text: I mean, you know, some things have come and gone, you know. Um, but I like the fact the music in the park, you know, we, that’s our, we love to do that on Wednesday nights and go and sit and you know, just the fellowship that the town brings. I think they do a great job of that.
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- Text: ...there weren’t a lot of big trees around, and it took them a while to get back to that point again. KK: Do you remember the music festivals or the motorcycle groups or the races, I mean what, did you participate in any of that? PW: What races are you talking about? KK: Well, I think, weren...
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- Text: ...ld come to town and say, we have to go to that store it’s the one with the legs, we gotta, it’s just crazy. Come in, the music’s loud but its fun and we used to have people stand in line to come into our store, we had a doorman and at one time we were up to 12 employees, um, its was g...