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- Description:
- In his monthly radio program Memories of the Past, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John talks about the old lighthouse on the bluff and the catwalk on the pier. He gives details about the Coast Guard Training camp at Mulligan's Hollow and the rifle range. He recalls Central Park and the band concerts offered there, the old carbon street lights, and the Interurban Dummy Line that ran from downtown out to Highland Park. He discusses the fish industry and the fish shanties set up on Dewey Hill.
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Paul Fortino, his daughter Margaret Michlitsch, and his wife Mary Jane are interviewed about the family businesses. Paul recollects Italian business ethics in the early 20th Century, what it was like being the only Italian Catholic family in Grand Haven, and working through the wartime and Depression eras. Paul also gives a detailed description of his school days and his career. He took over the family retail business in Grand Haven in 1941, which became the first business in Grand Haven to obtain a liquor license after Prohibition. Paul was a board member of the North Ottawa Community Hospital, the Harbor Commission, and the Highway Commission. He was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Director of Security First/Pacesetter Bank.
- Date Issued:
- 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This radio program includes excerpts from the original news stories that aired during the year. In 1964, management of WGHN radio is assumed by George Kleist and Doug Tjapkes. The US Air Force Thunderbirds participate in the Coast Guard Festival. The Musical Fountain is re-dedicated by Claude VerDuin, and the Nativity Scene on Dewey Hill is dedicated by Governor George Romney. Fires occurring at the home of George Christman in Spring Lake, Seaver Industrial Finishing Company, Muskegon Christian School, and Nunica Tavern are mentioned. The Spring Lake Junior and Senior High Schools are expanded. The new Grand Haven Junior High School and the Fruitport Branch of the Muskegon County Library are dedicated. Other construction projects in the area include the Ottawa County Building and the M-104 bypass bridge, and the plans for the new Grand Haven Post Office are approved. Strikes occur at Anderson Bolling and Gardner Denver, and a new world-record is set by Grand Haven water performer Dave Rue, who is pulled across Lake Michigan by a large kite and accompanied by Felix Pytlinske. The program also includes a list of prominent citizens who passed away during the year.
- Date Issued:
- 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This is a recording of the 27th annual Tri-Cities Historical Museum's Heritage Dinner and meeting, held November 7, 1986. Dave Seibold introduces the festivities and talks about events that happened in the Grand Haven area on November 7th over the years. He also recognizes the many volunteers and the Poel family for being the first Centennial Family from the area. Dave introduces J. Nyhof Poel, the family representative. Poel talks about his career as Ottawa County Clerk and the history of his family. Next, Paul Verseput talks about the museum millage and budget. The main speaker, Hal Dittenburg, is introduced by Sandy McBeth. Hal describes plans to celebrate Michigan's sesquicentennial at the state and local levels in 1987.
- Date Issued:
- 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In this interview, Mary Ingalls chronicles her life in the Grand Haven area from the one-room schoolhouse where she was educated to living on a self-sufficient farm during the Depression. Her memories from the farm include feeding the thrashers, canning and pickling, keeping a root cellar, hiring migrant workers, and steamboats traveling to Bruce's Bayou to retrieve the farm's produce for market. She remembers her courting days, various large manufacturing companies in the area, and her husband's death from a railroad accident. Her recollection further includes land ownership through the years, times of illness, and stories about holiday and family gatherings.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- This is a recording of the 28th annual Tri-Cities Historical Museum's Heritage Dinner and meeting, held November 5, 1987. Guest speaker Wilbur Rykert gives an account of the life of Rix Robinson, one of Grand Haven's early settlers who gave the city its name. Rykert presents Robinson's early life, his political career, his fur trading business that included the Grand, Kalamazoo, and Muskegon Rivers. Robinson's successful relations with local Native American tribes are also highlighted. According to historian Wallace K. Ewing, "In 1821, he helped with a treaty between the U.S. Government and the Pottawatomie Indians. Another treaty in 1836 ceded all land north of the Grand River to the U.S. Government. Respected by both Native Americans and Whites for his fairness, intelligence, and knowledge of the wilderness, Rix was credited with founding West Michigan ... In 1821 he married Pemissquotoquay, "Flying-Cloud Woman," the daughter of a Chief of the Pere Marquette Indians [Chief Hazy Cloud]." Rykert also gives a general overview of Michigan history in the 1800s.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Glenn DePagter, one of the original engineers who designed Grand Haven's Musical Fountain, recalls its planning and construction. The fountain, which opened as a tourist attraction in 1965, became the largest of its kind in the world. Glenn also gives a detailed description of Grand Haven's first hospital and remembers the influential Loutit family and their home, where his father Isaac worked as a maintenance man. As a young man, Glenn served in World War II and was later employed by Eastern Airlines, where he worked on the first jet engine. He discusses his later career at Keller Tool/Gardner Denver, where he began employment in 1951 as a designer of pneumatic tools, and recalls early analog computer systems.
- Date Issued:
- 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Harold Scholtz graduated from college in 1937 with a degree in commercial art and worked for Continental Motors in Muskegon, designing and writing manuals for their engines. He talks about assuming the management of the Tom Johnston Gravel Company in Ferrysburg when his brother-in-law, Tom Johnston, died in 1957. Harold describes in detail his education at Central School, Columbus Street School, and Michigan State College. He recalls his early jobs working in horse stalls, at the Highland Park Hotel, Tom Thumb Golf, and as a truck driver for the Vyn Company and reminisces about his uncle August Boseker and his involvement with Highland Park.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- In his radio program Talk with Old-Timers, Doug Tjapkes interviews Grand Haven resident John VanSchelven about his early memories of the area. During this program, John tells the story of going to Grand Rapids to sell a directory of Grand Haven to businesses. He describes the businesses in downtown Grand Haven and their owners. He also recalls the Wiley Water Works, the Magnetic Mineral Springs, The Cutler House, and the bad snowstorms of 1915 and 1936.
- Date Issued:
- 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Musicians Bob Warnaar and Doug Baker reminisce about the big bands that performed in and around Grand Haven during the war years. Their discussion includes Bob Warnaar's Big Band, Grand Haven's Jackie Band, Frank Lockage's band, the Eagle Ottawa tannery band, the Charlie Bird Band, the local Elks concert band and many others. Their performances took them to Central Park, the Hyland Gardens, the Armory, the waterfront, and most memorably, the Fruitport Pavilion, the area's premiere entertainment spot. Warnaar and Baker detail the history of the Pavilion and Warnaar discusses his involvement in the development of waterfront entertainment. Warnaar also recalls the first night he played at the waterfront when 3200 people came to enjoy the concert.
- Date Issued:
- 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection