This photo pair shares some characteristics from photo pair for Holland State Park just north of the Big Red Lighthouse. The historical Holland State Park photograph was taken in 1958, while this original photograph was taken just four years later and about ½ mile south as part of a tourism campaign. And like the 1958 Holland State Park photograph, in the distance of this 1962 photograph from Macatawa Beach, there are bare sand dune bluffs in the distance that by 2019 have been covered by vegetation. Here, there is also a sand dune on which the couple are standing that by 2019 is thick with grasses. Most of this grassy dune is behind the photographer in 2019, but it is impressive the amount of vegetation there now. Both locations also show the unmistakable hands of human development as well.
LAT: 42.771723, LON: -86.210435
Photo Credit – 1962, Archives of Michigan; 2019, Kevin McKeehan, Michigan State University.
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