Storm warning tower
Photograph
Simmons negative number 661
A crane lifts the new storm warning tower which may be the same one still near the Casa Loma property. Pavilion and the Edgewater marina is visible in the background
Index text:
661 0/12 Saugatuck - Kalamazoo Erecting new storm warning tower
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"

2022.21.661
Negative
Part of a system whereby flags that indicated expected (forecast) weather conditions for boaters was run up the tower. One of the harbormasters was Henry Hungerford.
William (Bill) SimmonsNauticalTransportation: waterWeather, extreme
Winthers, Sally
Storm tower
194 Simmons Negatives
Simmons, William "Bill" R. 1890/1-1966Dockside Marketplace/Noah's Ark/Charlie Hiestand's Edgewater Boat Livery
03/19/2022
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