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14 unusual facts about ''Saginaw''


Gene Stack

A native of Saginaw, Michigan, Stack signed a professional contract with the Lubbock Hubbers of the West Texas-New Mexico League in 1940.

George C. Thomson

He attended grade school in Cadillac and high school in Saginaw, Michigan.

George W. Housner

George W. Housner (December 9, 1910 (Saginaw, Michigan) - November 10, 2008 (Pasadena, California)) was an eminent authority on earthquake engineering and National Medal of Science laureate.

George Zahringer

George Zahringer III (born April 23, 1953 in Saginaw, Michigan) is an amateur golfer and stockbroker from New York, New York.

Saginaw, Minnesota

The center of Saginaw is generally considered at the junction of Saginaw Road (Saint Louis County Road 46) and Vibert Road (County Road 875) in the southeast corner of Industrial Township.

Nearby is the junction of U.S. Highway 2 and State Highway 33 in the northeast corner of Brevator Township.

Grand Lake Township and Industrial Township are also known as Saginaw.

Saginaw, Texas

The town was renamed Saginaw in 1882 by Jarvis J. Green (after his first choice of "Pontiac" was rejected by the United States Postal Service), who had lived and worked on Saginaw Street in Pontiac, Michigan.

Shakey Jake

Woods, who had moved as a child with his family from Little Rock to Saginaw, Michigan, travelled from Saginaw to Ann Arbor for a brief appearance at the Ann Arbor Blues Festival in 1973, and decided to stay.

The Bottle Deposit

Newman and Kramer quickly argue whether to deliver their mail and empty bottles to Saginaw, Michigan as they had planned, or to pursue Jerry's stolen car as it exits the highway in Ohio, to which Kramer agrees.

Meanwhile, Newman, who has spent days trying to calculate a profit to the deposit scheme, realizes that there will be a surge of mail the week before Mother's Day (the "mother of all mail days") to be sorted in Saginaw, Michigan.

WPBN-TV

At that point, the station joined WLUC, Saginaw's NBC affiliate WEYI-TV and (to a degree) Toledo, Ohio's NBC affiliate WNWO-TV as part of Barrington's family of stations in and around Michigan.

WSMH

This began airing on April 24 from WNEM's studios on North Franklin Street in Downtown Saginaw.

WTOV-TV

In 1983, Ziff Davis sold WTOV, along with then-sister stations WEYI-TV in Saginaw, Michigan, WRDW-TV in Augusta, Georgia and WROC-TV in Rochester, New York, to Television Station Partners, L.P. WTOV, along with WEYI and WROC, were sold to Smith Broadcast Group in 1996.


Alex J. Groesbeck

In addition to Groesbeck's political work, he was one of the builders of the Flint-Saginaw Interurban Railway.

Bobby Cunningham

Cunningham spent the next two seasons playing for five different teams in the United Hockey League, playing for the Saginaw/Ohio Gears, Adirondack IceHawks, Muskegon Fury, Mohawk Valley Prowlers and the Elmira Jackals.

Buick V6 engine

The engine was produced at the Flint North plant in Flint, Michigan, with engine blocks and cylinder heads cast at the Grey Iron plant (now the GM Saginaw Metal Casting Operations plant) in Saginaw, Michigan.

Charles K. Harris

His father was a fur trader and moved the family to Saginaw, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he grew up.

Chicago to Mackinac Boat Race

Two sailors died in the 2011 race when WingNuts, a high performance keeled Sportsboat Kiwi 35, (berthed in Saginaw, Michigan) capsized and turtled in 75 mile per hour winds.

CSC Maiden Saginaw

The Maiden Saginaw was the only aircraft built by the fledgling CSC Aircraft Company.

CSX Saginaw Subdivision

In the computer game series Trainz, the Saginaw Subdivision is available as a user-created route on the Trainz Download Station.

Denmark Township, Michigan

Vassar is a few miles southeast on M-15; Reese is a few miles to the north by county roads; I-75 is seven miles west on M-46, and Saginaw is just west of I-75; and Bay City is about 15 miles northwest on M-15.

Doug Sharp

Carrie Sharp is currently an evening news anchor for WNEM TV5 in Saginaw, Michigan.

Frank W. Wheeler

In 1864, he moved with his parents to East Saginaw, Michigan and attended the Saginaw High School and the Ypsilanti State Normal School (now (Eastern Michigan University).

Jack Ryder

Jack McBride Ryder, second president of Saginaw Valley State College

John G. Talbot

He was serving as executive officer of Saginaw when that steamer grounded on a reef off Ocean Island in the mid-Pacific on 29 October 1870 and broke up.

Kenneth Edward Untener

His funeral mass was celebrated in Saginaw and included a homily by Archbishop John R. Quinn of San Francisco, California.

Mackinac Trail

In Saginaw, Mackinaw Street closely follows Poole's route in the general direction of present-day Midland until the western city limits, where Mackinaw Street twists north, becoming Mackinaw Road and following a section line into Bay County.

Michael J. Hart

He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1880 and settled in James Township, Michigan, where he attended the district schools of Jamestown and Saginaw, and a business college.

MotorCities National Heritage Area

These counties comprise the Detroit metropolitan area as well as Saginaw, Flint, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Battle Creek, Jackson and Kalamazoo.

North Bay Battalion

Built in 1955, it is best known as the home of the North Bay Centennials, which called the Gardens home from 1982 until 2002, after which they moved to Saginaw, Michigan and became the Saginaw Spirit.

Paul H. Wendler

Wendler was a trustee and vice president of the Frank N. Andersen Foundation, the Saginaw Valley State University Foundation, a member of two crime commissions, the Saginaw Rotary Club, and the Boy Scouts of America.

Saginaw 9.5-inch axle

The Saginaw 9.5-inch axle is an automotive axle manufactured by American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. This differential has three major variants.

Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy

This committee took on the name "The River School Project", owing to the school's location on the banks of the Saginaw River near downtown Saginaw.

The Saginaw Arts & Sciences Academy is located in a building that originally housed a Montgomery Ward department store.

Stewart Francke

Stewart Francke (born September 15, 1958 in Saginaw, Michigan) is a singer/musician/songwriter in Detroit.

Francke and Broadway star Brian d'Arcy James recently raised $92,000 for the Fields Neurological Institute in their hometown of Saginaw, Michigan.

The Paterson Building

The Paterson Building is a historic office building located at 653 S. Saginaw St and Third Street in downtown Flint, Michigan, USA.

WDWO-CD

That channel was originally "W59CA" channel 59, a repeater of Saginaw's WAQP, serving Jackson, which was relocated to Ann Arbor in November 2000 and rechristened as W27CJ.