Name/Title
Shuffleboard at Wicks Park/Anchor ParkEntry/Object ID
2022.21.686Description
Simmons negative number 686
Men lean on a wooden fence to watch shuffleboard play in the park just upriver from the chain ferry landing and (back then) the Mt. Baldhead Hotel.
Index text:
686 0/1 Saugatuck - Resort Shuffleboard near ferry landing
From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961.
More information may be in the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record"Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Chain Ferry Landings, Wicks Park/Anchor Park/site after 1937Context
Posted by Vincent Mocini on facebook Saugatuck Remembered, Sept. 2024:
Places to play shuffleboard in the 1950s & 60s:
Saugatuck: 2 courts on Water Street in this photo, with storage for sticks & pucks in the large box as Jane Ann mentioned.
4 courts in front of the Butler, at what is now "Chief Lyle Jones" Park. Similar equipment storage box there. In summer, those 4 courts were very popular with the kids in daytime, and as they were lighted, with "serious" adult shuffleboard players like Harry Newnham, Roscoe Funk, Bob Rea, and many other local men & a few tourists. Greg Hoffman was often there watching as well. The "serious" players brought their own fancy & expensive looking (to us kids) aluminum sticks and better quality pucks. Games would go on until 10 pm or so. There may have been some friendly wagering on the outcome.
We kids would join 20 to 30 adults each warm summer evening to watch, but we had to head home around 8:30 or so, lest we risk maternal ire.
Douglas: 4 courts I think, adjacent to Beery Field,between the present day restroom & playground.Collection
William (Bill) SimmonsCataloged By
Winthers, SallyRelationships
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Person or Organization
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966Create Date
March 25, 2022Update Date
September 17, 2024
