Saskatoon in Popular Culture
Farley Mowat's 1961 novella, Owls in the Family, is set in Saskatoon and includes references to several area landmarks, including The Railroad Bridge. His 1957 book The Dog Who Wouldn't Be concerns his childhood in Saskatoon in the 1920s and 1930s.
"Runnin' Back to Saskatoon" is a 1972 song by The Guess Who. Saskatoon is also mentioned in the City and Colour song "Comin' Home". In 1960, Johnny Cash recorded "The Girl in Saskatoon", a song he co-wrote with Johnny Horton.
The cover art of Joni Mitchell's Clouds album, is a self-portrait, by Mitchell, of herself and the city of Saskatoon.
Mentioned in Adam Sandler's film Grown Ups by a lifeguard at the water park.
a 1946 novelty song by Irving Caesar, Sammy Lerner and Gerald Marks opens with the lyric "What a delight when I think of the night that I met you on, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan."
In the SNES game Super Punch-Out!!, the Canadian boxer Bear Hugger was originally depicted as being from Saskatoon, before later being changed to Salmon Arm, British Columbia.
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