Mrs. Charles Ten Eyck’s Potato Salad
Are You Ready to Test this Recipe Out? • Slice cold boiled potatoes and an onion (onions thinner than potatoes). The quantity of onions...
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Castle Museum
- Jul 15, 2020
- 2 min
A Golf Card with a History
While never used, this advertising piece offers a brief glimpse into the history of Saginaw's golf courses and the development of Saginaw...
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Castle Museum
- Jul 12, 2020
- 1 min
Ruth Horn Cummins’ Fresh Greens
Ruth Cummins was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1907. She married George H. Cummins and they lived in Saginaw on Burt Street with their four...
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Castle Museum
- Jul 5, 2020
- 1 min
What do Barbecue Sauce & Spic & Span have in common?
Naomi Mae Woolcot moved to Saginaw in 1906 when she was nine years old. She attended Hoyt and Saginaw High School, then began doing...
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Castle Museum
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
Shaping Saginaw: J. Fred Beckbissinger, Architect
Born in 1870, J. Fred Beckbissinger started his career - and training - working as a draftsman for Saginaw manufacturing companies and...
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Castle Museum
- Jun 29, 2020
- 2 min
Apple Pie - Just Like Aunt Jenny Use to Make
In the 1930s and 40s, thousands of Saginaw housewives welcomed “Aunt Jenny” and her radio show "Real Life Stories" into their kitchens...
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Castle Museum
- Jun 24, 2020
- 2 min
Who is Fred Hollister?
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.” Winston Churchill Although this quote is over-used in advertising campaigns and has...
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Castle Museum
- Jun 21, 2020
- 2 min
Jane Melzora’s Banana Cake
Jane (Thomas) Melzora along with her husband Melzer and three boys had to have one of the most interesting lives of anyone I know....
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Castle Museum
- Jun 16, 2020
- 2 min
Jacobson’s, April 1955: A Photograph Album
“I thought Jakes was the best store in the land and we were lucky to have one, a beautiful three level emporium with escalator and...
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