Henry Hungerford
Photograph
Simmons negative number 188
A cheery Henry Hungerford, with a captain's hat on his head and beer in his hand.
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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."
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Hungerford, Henry Harrison 1913-1976
William (Bill) Simmons
Winthers, Sally
194 Simmons Negatives
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966
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