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THE PEOPLE OF WALLOON LAKE
~ LOVE BEING NEAR THE WATER ~
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~ LOVE BEING NEAR THE WATER ~
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Photo Above: Charley Zimmer explained: "The year was (I think) 1962 [probably the same dates as the photo at the right], and the photo ran on the cover of the Graphic Resorter for the last issue of the summer. At that point my brother John and I were both working on a full-time basis at the Graphic, and it was John's idea to do something crazy for the last issue. So I went home, put on a suit (and hat, which I have in my hand), took off from the dock with a friend driving the boat, and then cruised by the dock as my brother took the photo. I remained amazingly dry during the whole process. I was a junior at Duke when the photo was taken. Other Walloon Lake residents may remember that John married the former Sally Olert, who also lived on Walloon. Sally was a model for Harold Grant's Congo Shop in Petoskey."
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Charley, again in the water, was in another Graphic Resorter photo below labeled as
"doing research with the Graphic's society editor, Sally Colwell."
"doing research with the Graphic's society editor, Sally Colwell."
~ Walloon Lake Resident Helped to Save a Life ~
Eventual long-time Walloon Lake resident Bruce Cotanche (right below) was awarded for helping to save the life of a young man, Bert Welsh, at the Municipal Bathing Beach in Harbor Springs. Foster McBride (left below) assisted with artificial resuscitation at the life saving.
Photo Below: Foster McBride, Mayor E.O. Nyman, Bruce Cotanche
Two Photos/Texts Below:
Enjoying the water... Derek Limbocher and John Kirk AND Gary Randall and Derek Limbocher
Enjoying the water... Derek Limbocher and John Kirk AND Gary Randall and Derek Limbocher
~ Diving Adventures in Walloon Lake in about 1960 ~
Dick Ecker (photo above right) remembers that in about 1960 he and Gene Burns (photo above left) went diving in Walloon Lake. Walter Masters of Masters Boat Works of Walloon was kind enough to donate the use of a pontoon boot for the adventure. They had recovered the mushroom boat anchor in about 15 feet of water in the West Arm. The anchor with about 6 feet of rope attached had 10-15 years of accretions on it. During the dive, Dick and Gene Burns almost were run over by two inquisitive 12 year old kids in a 15 foot Chris Craft. The kids had no idea of the significance of a diver's flag.
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Dick Ecker related another diving adventure which took place about a year after Dick had dived with Barb Burns' cousin in the photo above:
"Barb Burns must remember when we were down 70 feet in Walloon when her regulator quit. She could get no air. I did not notice what was happening till I saw Barb buddy breathing with Mr Barr's mouthpiece. We got to the surface and Barb dropped her weight belt. Then her wet suit kept her afloat like an empty bottle. When we got to a dock they put the pressure gauge on her tank and it had 1150 PSI on it, but her regulator would pass no air. Was she ever mad as she just had received the regulator back from being rebuilt. It was a 2-stage Voit regulator. She was unhappy about losing her weight belt.
I went back out into the lake about 50 yards, turned and went straight down to... Voila' her weight belt. A lucky find at about 25 feet. She was happy to get it back.
I did not learn how to buddy breath until later, but it should have been learned earlier. That dive could have been fatal."
~ Dick Ecker
"Barb Burns must remember when we were down 70 feet in Walloon when her regulator quit. She could get no air. I did not notice what was happening till I saw Barb buddy breathing with Mr Barr's mouthpiece. We got to the surface and Barb dropped her weight belt. Then her wet suit kept her afloat like an empty bottle. When we got to a dock they put the pressure gauge on her tank and it had 1150 PSI on it, but her regulator would pass no air. Was she ever mad as she just had received the regulator back from being rebuilt. It was a 2-stage Voit regulator. She was unhappy about losing her weight belt.
I went back out into the lake about 50 yards, turned and went straight down to... Voila' her weight belt. A lucky find at about 25 feet. She was happy to get it back.
I did not learn how to buddy breath until later, but it should have been learned earlier. That dive could have been fatal."
~ Dick Ecker
The booklet "Little Traverse Bay Resorts" in the Public Domain describes Walloon Lake and its waters, on the page below.
~ HAPPY NOTES of Loving Being By The Water ~
Kenny Starr remembered that he and his dad Alva Frank Starr built a diving board to put out in Walloon Lake at the beach area. They pulled it up to shore with a rope, and once when the rope let go, it wrapped around Kenny's waist and gave him rope burns. He said he was lucky that it had not wrapped around his neck! Kenny loved being by the water enough, however, that he spent a great deal of his life living, and working, near the Walloon Lake Public Beach, enlisting in the coast guard, enlisting for military duty which took him to Hawaii and being on Pearl Harbor the day it was bombed, and working on the Sloop Welcome at Mackinac City for years... yes, he loved being by the water.
About 1941
Emily Hoerr worked for the Scully Family enjoyed time at the North Shore cottage shoreline, with Chase Scully's children: Brian, Dennis and Connie.
Emily Hoerr worked for the Scully Family enjoyed time at the North Shore cottage shoreline, with Chase Scully's children: Brian, Dennis and Connie.
Photo Below: My dad was a fisherman, so he preferred to own a fishing boat. He did have a powerful motor on it to take us on the ski board. I always wanted a canoe, and Dick liked sailboats. However, we were happy to have any kind of a boat. It was great just getting out on the water. "Daddy pulling me on the ski board - what fun! We kept him busy. Note Mr. Ratliff's boat house and flag. ~ Barbara (Ice) Smith (Lake Grove Road, West Arm)
"Daddy pulling me on the ski board - what fun! We kept him busy. Note Mr. Ratliff's boat house and flag. ~
Being by the Water at The Foot
L>R: Sharon Cooper, Joe Bridenstein, Rosemary Renwick
L>R: Sharon Cooper, Joe Bridenstein, Rosemary Renwick
Joe Bridenstein was the developer of Springbrook Hills, a housing community, near to Walloon Lake.
Two Photos Below: Rosemary Renwick and Joyce Nielson at The Foot near the water
AND Rosemary Renwick on the public beach at The Foot.
AND Rosemary Renwick on the public beach at The Foot.
Photo Below Left:
Barb Behan lived with her parents Ed and Corinne Behan in their cottage on Walloon Lake.
Barb Behan lived with her parents Ed and Corinne Behan in their cottage on Walloon Lake.
Photo Below: Gary Cooper, Ron Cooper, Mike Sherk, Richard Kenroy in the back of a boat
Walloon Lake Water Pageant
LOVE the Frozen Waters of Walloon Lake
Two 12 February 2018 Photos Below:
Posted only by Permission from Drone Photographer Charles Dawley, Up North Imaging
More of Charles Dawley's remarkable videos and photography can be viewed on
Drone Photography from Charles Dawley "Up North Imaging".
Posted only by Permission from Drone Photographer Charles Dawley, Up North Imaging
More of Charles Dawley's remarkable videos and photography can be viewed on
Drone Photography from Charles Dawley "Up North Imaging".
Walloon Lake Fishing
~ FISHERMAN'S PRAYER ~
God grant that I may live to fish
Until my dying day
And when it comes to my last cast
I then most humbly pray
When in the Lord’s safe landing net
I’m peacefully asleep
That in his mercy I be judged
As good enough to keep
(Author Unknown)
The booklet "Where to Go Fishing" mentioned in the 1905 Petoskey Record above, can be viewed in its entirety on the Hathi Trust Digital Library.
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"Homer Wilde’s father was an occasional fisherman. He was a lace designer and sometimes showed us large paper sheets on which he would be designing lace patterns which would be used in making lace tablecloths in Suppiger’s lace factory in Highland, Illinois, where they lived. He was also quite a tinkerer and one time took a small cedar log and whittled out the head and mid-section of a fish which he then painted green and it looked quite life-like. Why he never made the rest of it I’ll never know, but on coming home from fishing he was often overtaken by another boat whose occupants raised their arms requesting him to show his catch, whereupon he would reach down and lift up what would seem to those distant observers like a huge fish. That revelation always drew congratulations from these passersby, but he was careful not to show too much of his ‘catch’."
~ James C. Whitfield, Sr. |
Names of Walloon Lake “Fishers” in Photos/Text Below:
1941: Mike Czerkie 1945: Pete Henley George Biallas Dan Buckley Jr. 1946: Clyde Morford 1947: Rodney Ward 1948: Mike Corey Lawrence Burkle 1949: George Bellmer 1950: Alfred Vaughan Perry Davis Chuck Anderson Mrs. Joe Schneider Herman Meyer Jr. Oakley Jones 1951: Mary Kullick Howard Fineout Oakley Jones Tom Curtis Ben Alec Goodin Les Fineout Orville Vaughan Bill Millikan Carl Bare E.A. Beuthin 1952: Chum Ecker Russell Eggers Herman Meyer Jr. Augie Miller George Albright 1953: John Kullik FrankHolzschu 1954: Dr. W.H. Tenney 1955: Renold Willis Leonard W. Blackwell 1956: Will Splan Basil Vincent Dave Sikarski 1957: Ernie J. Miller Art Stevens Cheryl Stevens 1959: Francis Peeler Ralph Kandt Mrs. Robert Gordon 1960: Lloyd Jeffries 1962: Irving Drost 1963: Lyle Green James Behling Billie Mackie Bob Mackie George Ketchman John Everts Ellis Bailey Dick Cage 1964: Roger Seamon 1969: Elwin Gardner 1979: Tom Spencley |
While demonstrating their love of "Being by the Water,"
Pete Henley and George Biallas of Walloon Lake hold huge fish they caught in Black Lake. Winter 1945... Louisa Taylor's Grandpa Dan Buckley Jr. with his two big catches from Walloon Lake.
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"The Fisherman" February 1952 issue had an interesting article and several photos of "Michigan's Walloon Lake" by Everett A. Houghton. On page 31 the article stated:
"The Michigan Institute for Fisheries Research of Ann Arbor lists eleven species of fish known to exist in Walloon: bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, rock bass, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, walleye, lake herring, lake trout, and smelt. Old timers have also reported catching a few crappies each year --- not many, but of good size.
Being an old Ann Arbor man myself, I hate to do this to the Institute, but I am afraid that I must report one more species to be found in Walloon --- catfish. That's right --- just one little old half-pound catfish. For that was exactly what Joe had caught my first evening out, the sum total of his and Bill's two days of fishing at Walloon."
"The Michigan Institute for Fisheries Research of Ann Arbor lists eleven species of fish known to exist in Walloon: bluegill, pumpkinseed sunfish, rock bass, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, northern pike, yellow perch, walleye, lake herring, lake trout, and smelt. Old timers have also reported catching a few crappies each year --- not many, but of good size.
Being an old Ann Arbor man myself, I hate to do this to the Institute, but I am afraid that I must report one more species to be found in Walloon --- catfish. That's right --- just one little old half-pound catfish. For that was exactly what Joe had caught my first evening out, the sum total of his and Bill's two days of fishing at Walloon."
Obituaries Below: Edgar and Grace Lotspeich and their children were residents of Walloon Lake for many years. Edgar's obituary explains what an avid fly fisherman that he was... with references of Edgar Lostpeich in writings by Judge John Volker, who wrote Anatomy of a Murder under pen name Robert Traver.
~ SAD NOTES of Loving Being By The Water ~
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DROWNINGS In Walloon Lake
Article Below: John Hernley did not drown,
but he was killed on his way to spend the day fishing
on Bear (Later Walloon) Lake.
but he was killed on his way to spend the day fishing
on Bear (Later Walloon) Lake.
Below: Names of People involved in SAD NOTES of Loving Being By the Waters of Walloon Lake
1893: John Hernley (killed on way to fish) 1903: Attorney Albert W. Barnum 1905: Gladys Howe Edna Van Amberg Alma Parker or Karcher 1908: Mrs. Ralph Harris and young child Catherine Giest 1916: Frank Laura 1919: Arthur Segenin 1925: Harry Angus 1948: James H. Deming Jr. 1949: Richard Wimer 1950: James Jankowsky Steven Moore 1952: Virgil C. Riggs Mrs. Virgil C. Riggs 1954: Bob Ballenger, Bill Cumings (other boat ran over their boat) Dr. Donald C. Beaver Dr. Harris Lilga 1955: Richard Morris’ child pulled to safety Raymond Belding 1969: Robert Neilson Veronica Skiera 2011: Jillian Malenfant (accident injury) |
See more articles like below, on this website on the South Arm webpage.
Attorney Barnum's Disappearance
VISITORS To Walloon Lake
Loving Being By The Water
Loving Being By The Water