Name/Title
Henry HungerfordEntry/Object ID
2022.21.188Description
Simmons negative number 188
A cheery Henry Hungerford, with a captain's hat on his head and beer in his hand.
Index text:
188 6/7 Saugatuck - People Henry Hungerford portrait
From photographic negatives created by William R. Simmons, editor of the Commercial Record newspaper between 1941 and 1961.
Photo caption from the 2001 SDHS book "Off the Record" — The singing cop at the [Coral Gables] Crow Bar "Five O-clock Club" ca. 1952 — "Hank" Hungerford, former commodore of the Saugatuck Yacht Club, summertime Saugatuck policeman and a bouncer at the Crow Bar, was dubbed by the Detroit News as the "singer-summer-suntanned-cop of Saugatuck (July, 1953). Having served in the U.S. Navy during the war, he was composer, church choirmaster, and organist [St. Mark's Episcopal in Grand Rapids]. In the '50s he also played the organ at the Log Cabin tavern on Butler Street, where, it is said, "He made that organ jump."Photograph Details
Subject Person or Organization
Hungerford, Henry Harrison 1913-1976Collection
William (Bill) SimmonsCataloged By
Winthers, SallyRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966Create Date
March 10, 2022Update Date
January 17, 2024
