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Blast And Fire Damage Office

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Ann Arbor News, December 27, 1951

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December

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1951

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Lansky Building Damaged in Explosion, December 1951 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

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Ann Arbor News, December 27, 1951
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BLAST RIPS WALL OF LANKSY BUILDING: These huge concrete blocks were dumped into the P. Lansky & Sons junk yard driveway when a blast blew out a 20-foot section of wall this morning. The explosion bared the office and basement area where a gas accumulation was believed to have been touched off. No one was injured.

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View of Damage From Driveway of Lanksy & Sons, December 1951 Photographer: Maiteland Robert La Motte

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Milan Police Chief Thomas Goodridge & Clarence Southward Check Gas Storage Tank Where Explosion Occurred, May 10, 1962 Photographer: William B. Treml

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Ann Arbor News, May 10, 1962
Caption
Fatal Blast: Milan Police Chief Thomas Goodridge and Clarence Southward check the empty gasoline storage tank where a garage welder was killed and another man seriously injured in an explosion yesterday. Southward escaped injury although he was standing only four feet from the tank at the time. He was not even knocked off his feet.