Baldhead Radar and Views
Photograph
Simmons 003
Mt. Baldhead Gap Filler Radar Annex and views from Mt. Baldhead
Index text:
3 7/8 bw Saugatuck - Baldhead Radar, View from Baldhead
Since the radar has no dome the image is from between 1958 and 1963
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"
Kit's notes: "003 Radar, view from Baldhead – radar installed in 1956 – part of Aircraft Control and Warning system, Saugatuck Gap Giller Annex PIN 5521. Men stationed there for about 8 years. Dome installed in 1964. Deactivated in 1968. Closeup"
![This image was featured as History Mystery #42 with the solution: Part of the Cold War air defense system, this radar sweep fit nicely inside the ball on top of Mt. Baldhead.](https://d8e7jbdw4fu0e.cloudfront.net/4124/4fbc7910-aba8-11ec-96bf-09f6b013c901-ulCnNBf.lg@2x.jpg)
2022.21.003
William (Bill) Simmons
Winthers, Sally
194 Simmons Negatives
Mount Baldhead Gap-Filler Radar Annex 1956-present
03/06/2022
03/31/2024