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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: ...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: ...they always know that when we have a recital, if you're in Miss Anna's class, you're gonna do it to classical music. Not anything modern. Cause, when I do that, I teach them about the composer, about the music, about the period. I'm a history teacher, I can'...
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- Text: ...And they typically have a band, so as I walked from the parking lot to the front of the temple, this rock music was playing, and all those people were laughing and drinking beer. And I look over and there's actually a goat over there. I don't know who had a goat, or who would expo...
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- Text: ...Our son did consider, Jason, considered for a short while being a rabbi, and then considered being a cantor, because music is his life. And I am just so happy to have Temple B'nai Israel. We struggle. It's a small congregation now. At one time it had 150 members, and now we'r...
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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...