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  • Title: The Blue Tempo "The House of Music"
  • Description: Front cover advertisement for The Blue Tempo "The House of Music" in Saugatuck, Michigan. The background photograph is a sepia-colored image of a crowded beach, which is most likely Oval Beach on the shores of Lake Michigan.
  • Text: ' The House of Music" < . )~ :
The Blue Tempo "The House of Music"

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  • Description: 'House of Music' Saugatuck." It is known as being one of West Michigan's first gay bars and had its peak popularity, circa the 1960s.
  • Text: .· ~ ~ i ~ BASS I I ffi lmm~~ ~ JOHN ALLEN OIDCAGO THE BLUE TEMPO ''House of Music'' SAUGATUCK ~ ~ ..
All-Star Jazz Combo

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  • Description: The flier is brown with age and the bottom highlights the different band members of the Blue Temp All Star Jazz Combo as well as dates for the music. Circa the 1960s.
  • Text: This Friday, Saturday & Sunday, Aug. 17, 18, .19 and the "BLUE TEMPO ALL STAR JAZZ COMBO" GIDTAR - Gar y Allen CLARINET BASS - Harry Orr Robert Snyder DRUMS - Guest Star J AZZ SESSION SAT & SUN . - LIVE 4:00 P.M. MUSIC WED. THRU SUN.
Ira Sullivan at The Blue Tempo

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  • Description: ...essed to potential resorters ahead of their stay in Saugatuck, Michigan. The letterhead reads "The Blue Tempo, House of Music" in cursive lettering. The letter covers the rates for a stay in The Blue Tempo Hotel and cabin rates on the Kalamazoo River. It also covers the activities...
  • Text: .... $60.00 per weeJ< for six persons. Below the Ba1Ue Tempo Hotel is t he spacious new Blue Tem~o, House ~f Music _bar .. A p1ace where you can meet aind enjoy an atmosphere with art appeal, that features the finest music f?r dancmg and ~istenmg, 'P'~ayed by some of the...
The Blue Tempo Resorter Letter

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  • Subject: Music festivals
  • 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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  • 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...
Nancy Crean (Audio interview and transcript), 2018