The Saginaw Club was founded in 1889 by a group of prominent business and professional leaders in the community. In the first year of the club, originally called the East Saginaw Club, over 200 men joined paying $100 each raising the funds to build the marvelous building on Washington Ave. Architect W.T. Cooper furnished plans,
I always assumed St Charles was named after a religious saint, but like a lot of things I think, I was wrong and actually the town was named for a really nice guy that started the community. In 1848 Charles S. Kimberly had made a land purchase from the U. S. government which was to
The village of Salina is forgotten to history, even though there are several people and buildings there. Salina was located at the south end of the east side of the Saginaw River in the area around Wicks Park. The center of town was in the area where S. Washington Ave. Gallagher and Fordney Streets come
The Historic Sign Park on the corner of Court and Hamilton Streets was started in 2006 after the Ippel sign was mounted on a pole where the old store once stood after it was destroyed by a fire in 2002. (you can read about Ippel’s HERE) Tom Mudd and the Saginaw Valley Historic Preservation Society have been restoring and displaying
It’s a foggy gloomy start to 2017, but I am hopeful for a wonderful year in Saginaw with more positive things happening. I have not been posting much during the holiday break, but it’s time I get back to the old grindstone and start posting again. I hope you will follow me this year, I have
Among the glorious holiday decorations at the waterworks, is a patriotic tree next to the flagpole, decorated with red, white, and blue lights. During the Iran Hostage Crisis at the Embassy in Tehran in 1979, plant supervisor Wally Rogalski had the tree decorated as a patriot gesture in honor of the hostages. The tree on
Way back in 1940, shortly after the new city hall was constructed replacing the old fire-ravaged building, the City Hall service manager hung one string of lights around the South Washington entrance. The tradition of decorating city hall with lights for the holidays has continued ever since then, and I think it looks more spectacular
I never shopped at Sears in downtown Saginaw, I am not old enough, I was born around the time the mall was built and that is where my Sears is. I did find this old postcard of downtown Saginaw that shows Sears down towards the river on Genesee near the bank building. The thing I
The old train station on Potter Street in Saginaw’s northeast side sits silently in the snow, remembering the days when the trains used to stop and visit. There was a time when the train would bring toys for the children or soldiers home from the war to spend Christmas with their families. Those days are gone
I visit the library rather often looking for information about Saginaw, or for my Lost In Michigan website (which you can see HERE). When I walked into the library recently, it felt like I was Norm walking into Cheers. When the Librarian saw me she turned around and retrieved the book I requested from another library, knowing
