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Ann Arbor News, August 13, 1954
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1954
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Going under and around a ladder outside State Savings Bank, 103 Washington St., August 1954
Going under a ladder outside State Savings Bank, 103 Washington St., August 1954
Outside State Savings Bank, 103 Washington St., August 1954
Outside State Savings Bank, 103 Washington St., August 1954
Negotiating ladders outside State Savings Bank, 103 Washington St., August 1954
Jon Lopez guides his bike under a ladder outside State Savings Bank, 103 Washington St., August 1954
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Are Ann Arbor Residents Superstitious? Well--

THE ANN ARBOR NEWS,ANN ARBOR, MICH.

FRIDAY, AUG. 13, 1954

ARE WE SHEEP? Today is Friday the 13th, and it seemed like a good time to show the results of a test made the other day by News photographers Pete Mann and Dale Fisher. Some men were working on the side of the State Savings Bank on W. Washington St. near Main. Their equipment didn't block the sidewalk - not until after Mann and Fisher had rearranged it. Then it was a case of going under a ladder or squeezing through a narrow space between a parking meter and a car at the curb. Look at them line up to avoid the ladder! And without even a dirty look for the workmen!

WHAT'S A LADDER TO HER: Just a nice passageway and she would have gone through. But Mama said no, and she went around.

AH, THAT'S BETTER: Mrs. E. E. Cribley of 7105 Dexter Rd., isn't afraid of walking under a ladder and proves it. Mrs.Clare Titsworth of Pontiac walks around. But that doesn't mean she's superstitious. Maybe it wasn't bad luck but failing debris she feared.

NO CHOICE FOR HER: We don't know whether Mrs. Edward Worsham of 1019 Pine Tree Dr. avoids black cats and ladders either. She looks brave here,but she had no choice. There wasn't room for 16-month-old Cathy's stroller anywhere but under the ladder. Well, even the Gallup poll has weak points.

ONE EACH WAY: Lady to the right and lady to the left. Wish we could have seen whether that couple approaching in the background split up at the blockade.

PARTING OF THE WAYS: When a feller's mother choose a path that presents obvious obstacles, there's nothing for him to do but stay to the right and be right, even if it means going under a ladder. That's just what Vladimir Bibicoff of 2820 Strommel, Ypsilanti, is doing here.

NO HESITATION HERE: This pedestrian surveyed the situation and chose the ladder even though the curb was clear at the time.

ROOM FOR A BICYCLE: The obstacles presented a special problem for bicycle riders. John Lopez of 2998 Geddes Ave., at the left,is negotiating the tricky passage under the ladder while Ken Mackay, 903 Granger Ave. (right) appears to have the issue.

TROUBLE: And then there is another way of doing it, but this youth probably wouldn't recommend it after wrestling that parking meter. Well, the experiment is over. And what did it prove? That people are easy-going and goodnatured, or else just too preoccupied with other things to make an issue of a sidewalk impediment that obviously could have been avoided.