I was heading home last night, and as I traveled across the Johnson Street bridge, I saw downtown Saginaw illuminated by the setting sun. I had to stop and take a few pics, even though I have taken several pics of downtown from the bridge before, I figured why not take a few more while
I was born in 1970, around the time the mall was built. My grandparents would always tell me about going downtown to go shopping. when I was a kid, most of the stores had moved to the mall, and there was not many left in downtown Saginaw. I do remember shopping as a little kid
I like seeing the red white and blue bunny at Jake’s on the corner of Hamilton and Court. The statues that were on display around Saginaw have all been packed up and shipped off to where ever they are going to next, so I was thinking next summer, it would be nice to see the
If you are in your car on Brockway, stopped for the light at Gratiot, you are looking at what used to be the old Marr Theater. It was built in 1938 by George E Marr, I guess it’s obvious how the theater got its name. The 725 seat grand old theater had a Mayan Temple theme,
I thought it was time to for a different color Pure Saginaw shirt, so I did some gray t-shirts with a black Pure Saginaw logo on the front. This weekend all Pure Saginaw Shirts on are Sale, I hope you will check them out since they help me with expenses to do my website. Some
As the kids go back to school it’s hard for me to imagine what it must have been like to go to a one room schoolhouse. I Graduated from Carrollton High School in the 80’s and we had about 80 students in my graduating class. I always thought that was a small school, now with
After the Flint “Sit Down Strike” in December of 1936, the newly organized UAW members went on strike at Saginaw Steering Gear in February 1937. Striking over working conditions, and wages, the first shift workers were locked in the plant, and second shift workers were not able to get in. The strike only lasted a few
I saw this photo in the Saginaw Public Library archives of these guys working on the road at the corner of Michigan and Genesee in the 70’s, I know the photos is supposed to be about the workers, but what I noticed were all the buildings. Like the old gas station on the corner with the ” ding ding”
You have to go all they way back to the lumbering days for the history of the old Chevrolet Parts Plant on the corner of 6th and Washington. In 1906 Saginaw Business men Arthur Eddy and E.A. Robertson persuaded John T. Rainier to move his car company into the old Merschon-Schutte-Parker lumber mill on the
I saw that the Saginaw County Parks is having a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of the new rail trail that goes from Saginaw to Bay City HERE. I figured why not check out the rail trail before the ceremony, I knew there was a spot at the end of Melbourne Road where the
