1933 Pavilion Contest Remembered
July 1933 Commercial
Record
For over 50 years, the Saugatuck Pavilion
was a center of entertainment for young and old. One of the annual events in
the early 1930s was a Costume Party and contest, with cash prizes for the
winners. In 1933, four young girls, two locals and two summer people were a
part of the competition. The oldest, Phyllis Pamperien, a college sophomore,
designed and sewed the costumes, which consisted of a milk maid outfit
and a cow suit. Local teens Betty and Vivian Powers, and Elizabeth Pamperien,
sister of Phyllis, were the contestants. Vivian, a
beauty who was to be the 1937 Blossom Queen, was the milk maid, while
Betty and Elizabeth did their duty the inside of the cow.
Betty (Powers) Strampel
Dorr and Phyllis (Pamperien) Yoder have both passed on, but Vivian (Powers)
Chambers of
was supposed to be $15, but somebody goofed,
and we only received $7.
The cash was divided four ways between the
girls.
The moral of this tale, says