Preston Tucker, Lincoln Park, Michigan Police Officer

[leslie]

I live in Lincoln Park, Michigan. Preston Tucker was on our police force in the 1930's. In fact, there's a group photo in our police station lobby from those days that includes Preston Tucker! The house that Preston and his mother lived in still exists! In fact, I almost looked at it when I was looking at houses in 1997, unbeknownst to me as Tucker having lived there! The old ladies at our historical museum remember Preston's mother well. She was a teacher. There's still quite a few people still alive who were friends with the Tucker's back then. A gentleman was telling me the other night that a relative of his was a friend of Tucker's in the 1930's! Does anyone out there have any information on Tucker's days in Lincoln Park? <p></p><i></i>

[chris]

mr.tucker used to buy old cars and redue them in the bulding in back of his moms home. they looked like junk when he started but when he was done you would never beleave that they where ready for auto heven.<br>
you can E-mail me at cschoenemann@hotmail.com<br>
if you want to talk about it more. <p></p><i></i>

[RDtoo]

When the movie "Tucker: the man and his dream" was released in 1988 (?). The News Herald, now the Heritage Newspapers located in Southgate, MI, did a big article on Preston Tucker's days in Lincoln Park, with recollections by those that remembered them. I remember that part of the article was devoted to him chasing rumrunners across the Detroit River during Prohibition. Maybe the article is still in their archives. <p></p><i></i>

[payner]

My grandfather was one of those rumrunners. As matter of fact, he was one of the last living (died at 90). PBS did a special on rumrunners and he was part of it. <p></p><i></i>

[LParker]

I grew up in Lincoln Park and read about Tucker being a Police Officer there. He was fired from the department for destruction of police property. It said that he drilled a hole through the dash of squad car and ran a tube from the engine compartment to the inside of the car so that he could warm up while working night shifts in the winter. <p></p><i></i>