Career Moves: Auto-Trim Plant to be Moved to Ypsilanti Township
Industrial Park Finally Lands Factory
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Stadium Bike Moves Across the Street
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Johnnie Rush in Barber Shop, November 1960
Year:
1960
Ann Arbor News, November 4, 1960
Caption:
John Rush: "Some say they don't see why the County Building and the city hall couldn't have been combined."
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Johnnie Rush in Barber Shop, November 1960
Year:
1960
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Robert Fletcher Repairs a Bicycle at Stadium Bike Shop, May 1976 Photographer: Larry E. Wright
Year:
1976
Robert Fletcher Repairs a Bicycle at Stadium Bike Shop, May 1976 Photographer: Larry E. Wright
Year:
1976
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AACHM Oral History: Gerald Edwards
Gerald Edwards was born in 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio. He remembers being discriminated against as one of three African American students at his elementary school in the aftermath of Brown v. Board of Education. At Heidelberg College, he participated in sit-ins to help found a Black Student Union House. After beginning his career in automotive manufacturing with Ford Motor Company, Mr. Edwards started his own business, Engineered Plastic Products, in 1987. He and his wife Jada also started the Edwards Foundation, which was dedicated to philanthropy in Namibia.
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AACHM Oral History: Hortense Howard
Hortense Howard was born in Bloomington, Illinois in 1927. Soon afterwards, her family moved to Ann Arbor, where she and her sisters became known as the “Bacon Sisters” for their choral performances at sorority houses and other venues. Ms. Howard attended a music school in Detroit because she “wanted to sing like Sarah Vaughan,” and she met many African American singers while working at the Gotham Hotel. She ran her own daycare, Sitters Unlimited Family Day Care, in Ann Arbor for twenty years.
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AACHM Oral History: Henrietta Edwards
Henrietta Edwards was born in 1919 and grew up in Muskogee, Oklahoma before moving to Ann Arbor in 1941. She and her husband worked at the Willow Run Bomber Plant during World War II, and owned two filling stations—one downtown at N Fourth Avenue and E Ann Street, and one on Highway 23. She celebrated her hundredth birthday with family, friends, and former coworkers and patients from St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, where she worked as a pediatric nurse for 32 years.