The story of Art’s two-headed fish

artstwoheadedfishFrom staff reports

On the right, with the gun, is William M. Walker Jr., a General Manager of United Delco, General Motors Corporation, at his retirement Banquet October 25th, 1972, at the Latin Quarter in Detroit, Michigan. He is being presented with a purportedly mutant two-headed fish. It was told he caught this monster on his most recent fishing trip. Below the mount is the lure with which it was caught. Seen in this picture, on the right, is the presenter, Mort Neff, the popular host of the weekly “Michigan Outdoors” television program that ran from the 1960s through the 1980s.

Tom Adams, the Chairman of the Campbell-Ewald Advertising agency and a close friend and fishing buddy of William Walker’s, had the agency put together this gift with the help of a local taxidermist.

Given to Art’s Tavern in 1985 by Josephine Zara, the daughter of William Walker, the two-headed fish now hangs on the first beam on your right as you enter Glen Arbor, Michigan’s popular spot.