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Centennial Parade, 1968 Saugatuck, photos and press

Photograph
Snapshots from the 1968 Saugatuck Centennial parade and tea at the Woman's Club. Also included are scans of Commercial Record coverage of the event on 22 August 1968.
94-1-13B_Saug._Centennial_Parade.jpg 1MB; Battle Creek Musical Mopetts, Community Cleaners convict Bob Rea outside the Rexall Drugs guarded by Erv Diepenhorst
94-1-13A_Saug._Centennial_parade.jpg 1.4MB; Johnny Appleseed, Fire Department Hose Reel, covered wagon, crowds outside the Embassy 94-1-003GHIJK_1968_Saug_Centennial_parade.jpg 1MB 94-1-003ABCDEF_Saug._1968_parade.jpg; Marching band, ladies dressed for tea at the Woman's Club, CR22Aug1968-Cent1.JPG 1.8MB 22Aug1968 Cent2.JPG 1.9KB 22Aug1968 Cent3.JPG 1.7KB CR22Aug1968-Cent4.JPG 1.9MB 22Aug1968 Tillstrom.JPG 316KB CR22Aug1968-BobWolbrink.JPG 1.7MB HB-1968CRCentennial (13).JPG 1.1MB

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Digital scan

Saugatuck Woman's Club 1904-presentButler Street215 Butler/Phil's/The Walton/The Embassy Bar & Grill/Cook /Metzger/Wallin Building201 Butler/Saugatuck Drug/Rexall/Parrish's Drug/Hotel Hamilton/Saugatuck House 1852-1913229-233 Butler/Oosting Appliance Shop East/Green Kandle/Busy Bee237 Butler/Puddingstone/Sinbad/Carl Walter's/Community Cleaners/Roche buildingRea, Robert Roberts 1900-1977Diepenhorst, ErvinWolbrink, Bob Jr. 1950-Tillstrom, Burr 1917-1985Sewers, Florence B. 1893-1984Brady, Henry L. 1920-2011Erlandson, Dave 1928-2021

Festivals, events, parades, celebrations

Winthers, Sally

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Found in Collection

These photos were scanned by SDHS volunteers and were posted on the Photo Blog in the hopes that community members would contribute more information. "tu" in the filename indicates the photo was "touched up" by Jack Sheridan

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Saugatuck Village Centennial 1968

These image(s) were copied from the SDHC photo blog [or the Jack Sheridan drive if that was a superior version] in preparation for updating the SDHC website in 2023.

10/18/2023

08/17/2025