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Shuffleboard at Wicks Park/Anchor Park

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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"
a686 circa 1945; 2.2 MB Digital file at 2021.72.02
Shuffleboard ca 1938; 3 MB from Rob Carey CDs. possibly not a Simmons photo

2022.21.686

Chain Ferry LandingsWicks Park/Anchor Park/site after 1937

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.

William (Bill) Simmons

Winthers, Sally

194 Simmons Negatives

Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966

03/25/2022

09/17/2024