Bronner’s posted this photo of their first billboard outside of Frankenmuth on the clock tower building in downtown Saginaw on their Instagram page HERE. Although I am not old enough to remember this sign or even this building I do have many fond memories of Bronners. I remember going there as a young boy with my grandparents
For those of you that know me, or have followed me for a long time, you know that I grew up in the 70’s. I was fortunate that my dad had a good job working at “The Gear”. One thing that I still remember from my childhood was going to the annual UAW Local 699
I am home looking out the window at a Winter Wonderland watching the snow fall, I thought I would go thru some of my winter pics of Saginaw and make a slide show with some of my favorites. This video thing is kinda new for me, and I am still learning how to do it.
As we remember the most infamous day in history, when the Japanese woke the sleeping giant, I think this is a good day to remember the U.S.S. Saginaw Bay CVE-82. Her first mission in 1944 was to transport pilots and planes to Pearl Harbor, and bring back damaged plants to the mainland. She provided support
I am not old enough to remember the hay days of downtown before the mall was built, and I know it has changed a lot over the years, but I think it still looks beautiful, especially with the Christmas lights. I wished my schedule would have let me take pics a little later last night
On the corner of Alicia and Bishop roads was the town of Alicia and it was the largest town in the Praire Farms ( check out my post about the farm HERE). It was named after William Lewis Claus’s oldest daughter. Mr. Claus was the chairman of the board of Pittsburgh Plate Glass who owned
I took this pic looking west on Genesee way back in November of 2011, and a lot sure has changed since then. The buildings where Yak’s Delli used to be are gone, and the Michigan Works building is there now. The Kahan building is gone on the corner of Genesee and Franklin. and the Bancroft and
There is that beer commercial with the most interesting man, and I think If Saginaw has a building that is the most interesting, it has to be the building on the corner of Water and Genesee. It has gargoyle-like eagles adorning the top of the building, and Lions with shields along the outside next to
In 500 block of South Jefferson, are two beautiful old Queen Ann style homes, one is the well known Hill House that Lumber Baron C.M. Hill built, but the other house was built by Hill’s business partner J.C. Caskey and his wife Jennie Caskey. Built in 1886, Caskey purchased the lot for $6000 and built
I love the new marque on the Temple Theater, and I finally was able to get a nice pic of it the other night, even though my hands were frozen holding on to my tripod. I was told the new marque is styled after the original one from the 1920’s, altho I don’t think it originally
