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The history of Ottawa Beach - Page 12A - Holland State Park
In this late 1940‘s photo, the lighthouse is red on top and white on the bottom, a color scheme it sported for several decades.
Notice the combination of day parking and trailer camping along the lake front in this photo, possibly taken the same day as the photo at the left. Also note that open water separates the channel from the pier. Several decades would pass before the Army Corps of Engineers would connect the channel with the end of the pier with a concrete walkway.
A View looking north dating from the late 1950‘s. The dune at the far right would become the site of the Spyglass Condominiums decades later.
A photo looking east dating from the 1970‘s with the old pavilion in the center foreground and the sandy face of Mt. Pisgah at top left of center.
